Foundations of Second Language Acquisition_1

Foundations of Second Language Acquisition_1

1. Bilingualism

   • Two Languages

2. 6000 languages spoken

3. Social status play a role

4. Natural ability to learn

5. Monolingual

   • Only one language

6. Multilingual

   • More than two language

7. Approximately 6000 spoken in the world

8. L1 acquisition before school

   • Children learn more than one language
     • cut-off age to learn
     • language around them

9. L1 and L2 learning are attributable to other factors

10. L1 and L2 learners

    • intermediate state

11. Cognitive maturation

12. L2 utterance

    • L1 structue

13. Language imput

    • Necessary for L1 and L2

14. L1 by children

    • No instructions

15. Native linguistic competence

16. Underlying system

17. Fundamentally different

18. Development

19. Linguistic

20. Social