Second Language Acquisition

1. Second Language Acquisition TutlaAyuhanna 2201410066

2. What is second language acquisition? • Second Acquisition Any language that is learned subsequent to the mother tongue The way in which people learn a language other than their mother tongue

3. What are the goals of SLA? • Description of L2 acquisition • Explanation, identifying the external and internal factors that account for why learners acquire an L2 in the way they do.

5. The goals of SLA Describe how L2 acquisition proceeds and to explain this process and why some learners seem to be better at this than others

6. Case studies • What is case study? A case study is a detailed study of a learner’s acquisition of an L2

7. Two types of case studies A case of study of an adult learner • Purpose A case study of two children learners

8. Methodological Issues • One issue has to do with what it is that needs to be described • Another issue concerns what it means to say that a learner has acquired a feature of the target language • Trying to measure whether acquisition has taken place concerns learners overuse of linguistic forms

9. Difference between Schmidt and Rod Elis • Schmidt Defines acquisition in terms of whether the learners manifests patterns of language use that are more or less the same as native speakers of the target language

10. Rod Elis Concerned with how J and R acquired the ability to perform a single language function.

11. Similarity between Schmidt and Rod Elis • Schmidt The learners may manifest target like use of a feature in a formula without having acquired the ability to use the feature productively • Rod Elis

12. Issues in The Description of Learner Language • Learners make errors of different kinds • L2 learners acquire a large number of formulaic chunks, which they use to perform communicative functions that are important to them and which contribute to the fluency of their unplanned speech • Issues raised by the case studies is whether learners acquire the language systematically

13. Schmidt vs Rod Elis

14. Issues in The Explanation of L2 Acquisition

15. The systematic nature of L2 acquisition also requires explanation Learners follow a particular developmental pattern because their mental faculties are structured in such way that this is the way they have to learn Emphasize the importance of external as opposed to internal factors

16. It is only possible to acquire native-speaker competence if learners start very young when their brains are, in some sense, open to language • L2 learners can only acquire difficult linguistic features if they receive direct instruction to them

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