AGE AND ACQUISITION

AGE AND ACQUISITION

1. CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS

   • there is such a bilogical time tableit means if the correctstimuli was not presented

2. TYPES OF COMPARATION

   • L1,L2 children(C1-C2), L2 children and adult (C2,A2)

3. DISPELLING MYTHS

   • practice, imitation, separate sound and words, listen then speak

4. NEUROLOGICAL CONSIDERATION

   • study of the function of the brain in theprocess of acquisition

5. BIOLOGICAL TIMETABLE

   • Scovel cited evidence for a sociobiological critical period in various especies of mammals and birds,

6. ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

   • adults can in anormal course of life acquier L2

7. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ACCENT

   • there is an existence hat are used in articulationof hundred musclest

8. AFECTIVE CONSIDERATION

   • hmans beings are emotional creatures
     • afective domain includes many factors
       • enpathy, self-esteem,, extroversion,inhibition,imitation,anxiety,attitude

9. LINGUISTIC CONSIDERATION

   • proceses between children and adults differ in a L2

10. COGNITIVE CONSIDERATIONS

    • changes are criticalother are more difficult to detect
      • stages
        • sensorimotor,preparation,operational,concrete,formal

11. HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZACION

    • human brain matures some functions are lateralizedto the left emisphere of the brain

12. RIGHT-HEMISPHERIC PARTICIPATION

    • is active during the early stagesof learning L2

13. BILINGUALISM

    • coordinate bilingualusm with two meaning systemas opposed to compound bilinguals
      • engage in code swiching
        • adults more cognitively secure, appear to operate from the solid foundation of the first language and thus manifiest more interference.

14. INTERFERENCE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECON LANGUAGE

    • adults L2 are more vulnerables learning it in the clasroon or in the "arena"

15. INTERFERENCE IN ADULTS

    • adults L2 they attempt to formulate linguistic rules on the basis of whatever linguistic information

16. ORDER OF ACQUISITION

    • transfer of thefirst language of L1sintactic paternrarely occurs in cchild L2
      • children L2 use creative construction process just as they do in their first language
        • Roger Anderson noted that eleven english morphemes constitute a minut portion of english syntax