Second Language Acquisition

Second Language Acquisition

1. Noam Chomsky

   • Language Acquisition Device
     • Children are not mimicking language but creating it themselves. They use language appropriately by age 5.
   • Universal Grammar
     • All language is built off the same foundation. The only difference lies in it's utilization.
       • Grammatically show how words play the same roles in the various languages

2. Stephen Krashen

   • Input Hypothesis Theory
     • Language is understood when the message of the language is understood.
       • ELL will better grasp language by making clear connections to what they already know

3. B. F. Skinner

   • Behaviorism Theory
     • Human behavior can be learned by positive or negative reinforcement, stimulus, and response
       • Giving an ELL a smile and high five for answering correctly gives them incentive to continue in the right direction

4. R.C. Anderson

   • Information Processing Theory
     • Gathering together bits and pieces of information and knowledge and polishing them into complex thinking.
       • Have ELL take smaller words they understand to make sentences and phrases then progress to conversation

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