Input

Input

1. Critical role in how linguistic systems are created

   • L1 and L2

2. SLA

   • Language that a learner hears or reads
     • Communicative intent
       • Role of learner: comprehend the message
         • Basis for acquisition

3. Not information about the language

4. Must be comprehensible

   • Supported by context

5. types of input

   • conversational
     • communicative exchange with other people
   • non conversational
     • when the learner is not part of the interaction
       • watching television, listening to radio, and attending to a formal lecture

6. Input and the Developing System

   • Developing System
     • Developing
       • progress, evolving, changing
     • System
       • complex
         • Not easy to describe
       • unity
         • different components forming a whole
       • diverse
         • Different
       • Common purpose
         • Linguistic system
           • Variety of purposes
             • Communication
     • Network of associations
       • Word connections
         • Meaning
         • Gramatical forms
     • Syntactic system
       • Implicit rules that govern the sentence sturcture
         • L1-L2
         • Hierarchical structure
     • Pragmatic and sociolinguistic competence
       • Pragmatic: Able to infer meaning. Sociolinguistic: the Underlying knowledge that determines what is appropriate in a given context
     • How it changes
       • Dynamic
         • Accommodation
           • Incorporation of form into the LS
         • Restructuring
           • How syntax and other structures may change

7. Input processing

   • Form-meaning connections
     • Working memory
       • Intake
         • Processing meaning
   • Parsing
     • Filling in gaps
       • Word order
   • Facilitated by
     • Interaction
       • Confirmation checks
       • Modification of input