5 Hypothesis about SLA

The Adquision-Learning Distinction

Adults have two distinct and independent ways of developing competences in a second language. There are adquisition and language learning.

Adquisition: unconcious process.

Learning: concious knowledge of a sencond language.

The Natural Order Hypothesis

It is the idea that children learning their first language acquire grammatical structures in a predetermined natural order, and that some are adquired early than others. Learnes acquire the grammatical morpheme -ing before the morpheme third person -s.

Some groups acquired L2 showed strictict similiarities.

The Monitor Hypothesis

Acquisition and learning are used in a very specific way.

Acquisition initates the our utterances in the second language and learning only makes changes in the form of our utterances, after they have been produced.

It implies that formal rules or concious learning play a limited role in the SL performance.

The Input Hypothesis

We acquire when we understand a language that contains a structure a it beyond of our currently level of competence. We use our linguistic competence to relate the real world , the context or the information that we already have.

If the acquirer understand the input, the i+1 is provided.

The Affective Filter Hypothesis

How affective factors are related with the second languages acquisition. There are varieties of variables and they are categorized in three: motivation, self-confidence and anxiety. The AFH captures the relationship between affective variables and the process of SLA.

Five Hypothesis about Second Language Acquisition