SLA Process and Theories

The Natural Order Hypothesis
1. Dulay and Burt
2. This hypothesis suggests that students acquire language rules in a predictable order. Like for example learning the present or future tense for SLA students was acquired a lot earlier than those learning the past tense.
Pre-Production
1. Robertson and Ford
2. "silent period" is where the student takes in the new language but doesn't speak it. Lasts about 6 weeks
The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis
1. Krashen and Terrell
2. Defining acquisition as developing language in a natural habitat, whereas the learning part is having a conscious knowledge about what is going on. Acquisition is like a SLA student playing catch with his friends and knowing to catch the ball, whereas learning is the comprehension of what they are saying to the boy.
BICS and CALP Theory
1. Jim Cummins
3. This is the idea that language is divided into social and academic. Where a student can have social language, and this would be his interaction between peers. This is commonly seen by teachers. But as far as Academic language, that would be the comprehensiveness, and this step takes a lot longer to appear.
Early Production
1. Robertson and Ford
3. The 2nd step in the SLA process. Individual begins using some vocabulary and makes short sentences, but the emphasis is still on absorbing the new language.

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