First Language Acquisition and Second Language Acquisition

First Language Acquisition and Second Language Acquisition

1. Similitarities

   • Developmental Sequences
     • The silent period, formulaic speech and structural and semantic simplification
       • L1
       • L2

2. Acquisition Order

   • Grammatical Morphomes
     • L1
     • L2
       • Natural Order Hypothesis

3. Linguistic Universals and Markedness (L1 and L2)

   • Typological Universals
     • Cross-linguistic
       • Nouns, Verbs
     • Unmarked Features
       • Learners tend to transfer
     • Marked Rules
       • Learners resists transferring
   • Generative School
     • Universal Grammar
       • Word Order

4. Input (L1 and L2)

   • Learners hear or receives and from he/she can learn.
     • Feedback

5. Behavioristic Views of Language Acquisition

   • Behavioristic Approach
     • Learners start off with the habits associated with the Firts Language
       • Stimulus/Responses
         • L1 and L2 learners form and repeat sentences they haven´t heard of before.

6. Zone of Proximal Development

   • Vigotsky
     • The child is able to copy a series of actions which surpass his/her own capacities

7. Differences in Firts and Second Language

   • The acquisition/Learning Hypothesis
     • Adults can acquire their first language
     • Children get their first language.
   • The Critical Period Hypothesis
     • Language can be acquired more easily and beyond which time language
     • Neurogical Considerations
       • The brain assigns certain structures and functions to certain hemispheres of brain.
     • Psychomotor Considrations
       • Speech
     • Affective Considerations
       • Attitutes, motivation, anxiety and inhibition.
     • Fossilization
       • Social Factors
         • Natural Context
         • Educational Context

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