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SLA

SLA. What is Second Language Acquisition. The systematic study of how people acquire language. Goals of SLA. Provide some available insights into L2 learning Provide a better approach to find out what learners actually do opposed to what they think when they try to learn.

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SLA

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  1. SLA

  2. What is Second Language Acquisition • The systematic study of how people acquire language.

  3. Goals of SLA • Provide some available insights into L2 learning • Provide a better approach to find out what learners actually do opposed to what they think when they try to learn. • How learners overall ability develops • Description of L2 acquisition

  4. Factors influencing SLA • Social • Inputs learners receive

  5. Internal factors • Cognitive mechanisms • Handling enormous amount of knowledge • Language aptitude

  6. 2 case studies • Name: wes • Adult learner • L1: Japanese • Age: 33 • He is an example of a naturalist learner- someone who learns language at the same time as learning to communicate it. (see pp. 6-8)

  7. 2nd case study • Names: J & R • L1 : Portugues and Pakistani • Both learners were learning E in a language unit in London. • Focus of study: requests

  8. Conclusion of both CS • They raise a number of important methodological issues relating to how L2 acquisition should be studied • They raise issues relating to the description of learner language • They point to some of the problems researchers experience in trying to explain L2 acquisition.

  9. Methodological issues • What needs to be described in SLA • What is the meaning of acquisition • How far a learner has acquired a specific aspect • Overuse of linguistic forms

  10. Issues in the description of LL • Learners make errors? • Formulaic chunks • Systematicity

  11. Explaining L2 acquisition • Item learning • System learning • Mentalist account?

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