First and second language acquisition

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First and second language acquisition

Implications for Language Teachers

researchers have tried to explain how children progress from "no language" to their mother tongue

However, in the acquisition of the second language, the process is more complicated since the students already have knowledge of their first language.

Differences in First and Second Language Acquisition

Fossilization

Is used to label the process by which non-target norms become fixed in Interlanguage.

- age -lack of desire to articulate communication pressure -lack of opportunities

The Critical Period Hypothesis

Neurological Considerations

Psychomotor Consideration

Affective Considerations

The Acquisition/ Learning Hypothesis

Krashen states that there are two ways for an adult to approach a second language:

"adults can (1) 'acquire', which is the subconscious way, through informal and implicit languages."

Similarities between First and Second Language Acquisition

2.1 Developmental Sequences

2.2 Acquisition Order

2.3 Linguistic Universals and Markedness

2.4 Input

2.5 Behavioristic Views of Language Acquisition

2.6 Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

Introduction

In the text it mentions that understand the nature of language acquisition 1 and 2, compared and evaluated various aspects.