Language Learning Acquisition

Language Learning Acquisition

1. Interactionist Position Approach

   • Focuses on Innate Learning and participation in the classroom.
   • Jerome Bruner
   • The environment in which they are learning develops learning skills as well as language development.
   • Mainly focuses on the developmental parts of language learning through the idea of Innatism.

2. Second- Language Acquisition

   • Eric Lenneburg
   • Occurs mainly between the ages of 2 through puberty.
   • The ability to learn language and that it is negatively affected by the completion of process and lateralization.
     • Lateralization: brain function with tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be more dominant in one hemisphere than the other

3. Structural Linguistics

   • Ferdinand de Saussure
   • The role of an individual unit is dependent upon the position within the overall structure.
   • Language viewed as a system.
   • Use of units and mutual relationships.
   • Choice/Substitution Charts

4. Natural Order Hypothesis

   • Stephen Krashen
     • Dulay and Burt 1974.
   • Language rules are acquired in a predictable order by leaners.
   • Responding to students interests. Stunting lessons for their understanading.
   • Language is most accurately acquired in an environment of natural conversation.

5. The Monitor Hypothesis

   • Monitor internal grammatical editor development.
   • Krashen and Terrell 1983
   • Create silent periods within a low-anxiety classroom.
   • Acquisition is necessary and primary to language development.

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