SLA approaches

SLA approaches

1. Contrastive analysis

   • explains learner's problems comparing L1 - L2.
   • increase efficiency in L2 teaching
   • Order of comparison
     • Phonology-Morphology- Syntax-Lexicon-Discourse

2. Behaviorist learning theory

   • Language acquisition process: Stimulus-Response-Reinforcement

3. Error analysis

   • learners’ ability to construct language.
   • Procedure for analyzing learner errors
     • Collection-Identification-Description-Explanation-Evaluation

4. Interlanguage

   • intermediate states of a learner’s language
   • how the L2 is taught

5. Monitor model

   • children's innate knowledge of the language.

6. Universal grammar

   • Grammar was the first linguistic framework with an internal focus.

7. Systematic linguistic

   • Logical Problem of Language

8. Functional approaches

   • Functional typology
     • Classification of languages and their features
     • Comparative study of world’s languages.
   • Function-to-form mapping
     • involves a process of grammaticalization