Second Language Acquisition notes
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- First and Second Language Acquisition13
- Theories of Language Acquisition76
- Krashen's Hypotheses13
- Interlanguage and Developmental Sequences39
- Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis24
- Cognitive Factors in Language Learning47
- Attention, Consciousness and Noticing14
- Input, Interaction and Output11
- Individual Differences in Language Learning29
- Age and the Critical Period20
- Social and Cultural Factors in Language Learning27
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Chapter 2: Written and SLA - created from Mind Map Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition 1.Learning is what many students experienced in high school or college foreign language classes.Learning is a coucious process that involves studying rules and vocabular...
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Culture and Language Learning - created from Mind Map Culture: Markus and Hamedani (2007) define culture “as patterns of representations, actions, and artifacts that are distributed or spread by social interaction” Cultural Psychology1 People and their social worlds are ...
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Second Language Acquisition - creado desde un Mapa Mental Second Language Acquisition Similarities between L1 and L2 acquisition Both require great deal of time Each type of acquisition includes automatic and monitored processes Comprehension generally precedes produc...
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Second Language Acquisition - creado desde un Mapa Mental Similarities between L1 and L2 acquisitionBoth require great deal of timeEach type of acquisition includes automatic and monitored processesComprehension generally precedes production of language formsEach involves a ...
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Social Aspects of Interlanguage - Criado a partir de um Mapa Mental • The prevailing perspective on interlanguage is psycholinguistics. INTERLANGUAGE AS A STYLISTIC CONTINUUM THE ACCULTURATION MODEL OF L2 ACQUISITION
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Second Language Acquisition - created from Mind Map LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS LEARNER LANGUAGE PERSPECTIVES/THEORIES
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Early theories in SLA - created from Mind Map BEHAVOURISMHJGFHGC MONITOR THEORY a theory taken from psychology
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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - created from Mind Map FIELDS THEORIES KEY THEMES IN SLA RESEARCH
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COGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON LANGUAGE LEARNING - creado desde un Mapa Mental THE "G" FACTOR LANGUAGE APTITUDE COGNITIVE STYLE
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CRITICAL PERIOD The period in early life when human being has the capacity to acquire a first language is called critical period. Lenneberg (1967) concluded that there was a period up to puberty, during which the configuration of the...
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Principles of Instructed 2nd Lg Learning - creado desde un Mapa Mental I = Rich repertoire of formulaic expressions and a rule-based competence II = focus on meaning III = focus on form
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Pidginization theory and second language learning/acquisition - creado desde un Mapa Mental The study discusses and evaluates the pidginization theory and shows, through various standard and extensive references, how it relates to Second/Foreign language learning. In the introductory statements, the definiti...
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Essentials of SLA - created from Mind Map Proficiency transferability theory Properties of language Comprehensible input hypothesis
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Linguistic processes - creado desde un Mapa Mental Language transfer Overgeneralization of target language strctures Strategies used in SL learning
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Untitled Sociolinguistic Variation: L2 learners often do not incorporate regional and social characteristics of the target language like native speakers. Examples include the use of "nous" vs. "on" in French, wher...
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INTERLANGUAGES - created from Mind Map It was created by Larry Selinker in 1972 SECOND LANGUAGE MOTHER TONGUE
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INTERLANGUAGE - created from Mind Map a term coined by Selinker to refer to the systematic knowledge of an L2 that is independent of both the target language and the learner's L1 Different approaches to incorporating a social angle on the study of L2 acqu...
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SLA - creado desde un Mapa Mental Linguistic development Social Factors Universal Processes
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COGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON LANGUAGE LEARNING - creado desde un Mapa Mental COGNITIVE FACTORS FACTORS OF INTELLIGENCE MENTAL CONDITIONS
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