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Assignment #1 Review Activity Preview next chapter- Essential Questions Babies, Children, and Learning Personal Reflection Nature versus Nurture in language learning
Essential Questions
How do we learn a language?
process between L1 and L2? If so, what are the differences? How does our L1 interfere with learning L2?
for children?
How do you think these babies and children
produced all of the vowel sounds and most of the consonant sounds of any language in the world. Before they are three years old, mastered most of the distinctive sounds of their first language and have an awareness of basic discourse patterns. By the age of five or six, they can control most grammar patterns.
Personal Reflection
Think about a student you have in class that
innate capacity to learn another language. Genetically given capability. (Since languages are complex, and children can learn languages quickly, there is no way they can learn the language.) View children as being able to develop more abilities as they grow up. As children mature, so do their language abilities.
the rate of learning can differ, but there are stages everyone goes through. Cut off point- if the process does not happen at a young age, youll never learn the language. (Critical Period Hypothesis)
What does this mean for us as teachers?
language is used with them and around them, no matter what is their language. Immigrant childrenno interaction with their background, they will never learn the language.
and social interaction, the rate and sequence of development doesnt change. The only thing that may change is pronunciation, vocabulary, and social function.
What does this mean for us as teachers?
L1 versus L2 Learning
Initial State- knowledge about language
development
Final State- Outcome of learning
Initial State
L1- Innate capacity
Transfer
Positive transfer- When an L1 structure is
used in an L2 utterance and that use is appropriate or correct. -Subject, verb order -Vocabulary Negative transfer/Interference- Opposite of Positive transfer; considered an error.
Personal Reflection
Think how those four conditions impacted your learning another language. What role did those conditions had in your language learning? Feedback Aptitude Motivation Instruction
Personal Reflection-Part 2
Think how those four facilitating conditions appear in your teaching. What conditions do you think are impacting your students learning? Why or why not? Feedback Aptitude Motivation Instruction
Final State
L1= Native competence (fluency like a native speaker) L2= Multilingual competence Never be a native speaker Level of proficiency is variable Still face interference of L1 (fossilization