LEARNING OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

LEARNING OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

1. Comprehension and Production

   • Productions
     • More observable in the language
   • Comprehension
     • Much performance
   • All aspects of linguistic comprehension precede ,or facilitate, linguistic production

2. Competence and Performance

   • performance
     • Refers to actual production (speaking ,writing and the comprehension (listening,reading
   • COMPETENCE
     • Underlying knowledge of the system of a language
       • rules of grammar, vocabulary, pieces of languages and how those pieces fit together
   • Chomsky
     • link competence to a idealized speaker-hearer
     • Tarote states
       • Heterogeneous competence

3. Nature or Nurture?

   • "Humans beings are bio-programmed to proceed from stage to stage
   • , people are innately programmed to release certain properties of language at certain developmental age

4. Universals

   • According Universal Grammar
     • Languages cannot vary in an infinite numbers of ways
     • Parameters determines ways in which language can vary
       • Eg.kicked the ball

5. Systematicity and Variability

   • Systematicity
     • Child language is the systematicity of the process of acquisition
       • Children infer the phonological,structural,lexical and semantic system of language
   • Variability
     • In both first and second language acquisition the problem of variability is being carefully addressed by researches

6. LAnguage and Thought

   • Benjamin Whorf
     • Language affects though
   • Piaget
     • Thought and language were seen as two distinct cognitive operation that grow together

7. Imitation

   • Behaviorists
     • A deeper level of imitation is far important in the process of languague acquisition

8. Practice

   • behaviorists
     • Practice -repetition and asociation is the key to the formation of habits by operant condition

9. Input

   • adult and peer input to the children is very important

10. Discourse

    • Berko -Glason
      • for successful first language acquisition to take place ,interaction rather than exposure