SLA Theories and Proccess

SLA Theories and Proccess

1. Communicative Competence

   • The learner could be involved in sequence activities such as ice breaker games to reduce the anxiety and add more joy to the classroom.
   • Emphasizing on how, when, and where to use language appropriately, forcing students to meet their needs through communication
   • Dell Hymes

2. Interlanguage

   • Larry Selinker
     • American linguist
   • an intermediate systemem they create as they attempt to achieve nativelike competence
   • Second language learner sprocess
     • the rules of thier own language
     • a general knowledge about the way languages work
     • rules of the new language that they acquire

3. Motivation

   • Instrumental
     • the need to acquire a language for a specific purpose.
   • Gardner and Lamber
   • Integrative
     • the desire to become a member of the culture of the second-language group.
   • Provide student with quotes to inspire them. As well giving them a list of achievers in the professional world who has overcome the adversity before.

4. Behaviorism

   • This process, relates to the different types of ways people learned language as well as other human behavior.
   • Through behavioral interactions students grasp the meaning of conceptual terms through behavior.
   • B.F Skinner

5. Universal grammar

   • All human language relies on innate building blocks of expression.
   • Noam Chomsy
   • The foundation of what we are building on the rules of verbs, nouns, and adjectives to understand the meaning behind the words..

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