Introduction: describing and explaining L2 acquisition

1. Introduction: describing and explaining L2 acquisition Second language Acquisition – Rod Ellis

2. Explainer • Dias Wicaksono • 2201410026 • Introduction to SLA • Rombel 03

3. What is second language acquisition? • Second language can refer to any language that is learned subsequent to the mother tongue • The way in which people learn language other than their mother tongue, inside or outside the room

4. What are the goal of SLA? • Identifying the external and internal factors that account for why learners acquire an L2 in the way they do • How L2 proceeds and to explain about the process of developing SLA

5. External factor : • social milieu in which learning takes place • the input that learners receive • Internal factors : • Learners posses cognitives mechanism which enable them to extract information • Learners posses general knowledge about the world • Learners posses communication strategies

6. Case study • A case study is a detailed study of a learner’s acquisition of an L2 • The result of case study: • Raise a number of important methodological issues relating to S2 acquisition • Raise issues relating to the description of learner language • They point of some of the problem researches experience

7. Methodological Issues • Language is such complex phenomenon that researchers have generally preferred to focus on some specific aspect rather than on the whole of it • A learner has acquired a feature of target language

8. Issues in the description of learning language • Learners make errors of different kinds • L2 learners acquire a large number of formulaic chunks • Learners acquire the language systematically

9. Issues in explanation of L2 acquisition • Learners must engage in both item learning and system learning • The systematic nature of L2 acquisition also requires explanation

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