LINGUISTIC CONSIDERATIONS

LINGUISTIC CONSIDERATIONS

1. Issue in age and acquisition

   • Linguistic processes
     • Second Language Acquisition
     • Differ between children and adults

2. BILINGUISM

   • Children learning 2 languages
     • By similar stategies
     • Separate contexts of them
     • Have a greater mental flexibity
       • Lambert's contention (1972)
   • Two meanings systems
     • Mixing up languages
       • Use of contexts of languages
         • Acquisition is slower
     • Code-switching
       • Insert words or phrases

3. INTERFERENCE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGES

   • effects of the first and second languages
     • Children
       • linguistic and cognitive processes
         • Similar in first and second language learning
           • Rules
           • Strategies
     • Adults
       • Second language learning is more vulnerable
         • They approach the second language sistematically
           • Available information to them
       • More cognitively secure
         • First language
           • facilitator factor

4. ORDER OF ACQUISITION

   • Children
     • Use a creative construction
       • To learn a second language
         • Perceptual salience
         • Semantic complexity
         • Morpheme acquisition
           • Semantic-oriented approach
         • Syntactic category
         • Frequency in the input