L1 and L2 Learning
When does the learning starts to learn?
When it's a baby.
Define Confidence
The state of feeling certain about the truth of something.
What are learners characteristics?
Include a learner's motivation, learning style, learning strategies, maturity and past language learning experience.
Define skills
are the competencies you need to perform tasks the job requires. An architect, for example, needs many job skills to succeed, like the ability to "design construction projects", "analyze spatial data", "make presentations" and "read blueprints".
What is the mental skill when learning a language?
Cognitive skills.
Define learning style
The term “learning styles” speaks to the understanding that every student learns differently. Technically, an individual's learning style refers to the preferential way in which the student absorbs, processes, comprehends and retains information.
What are the factors which influence the learner's attitude?
How they learn it, how they respond to different teaching styles and approaches in the classroom, and how succcessful they are at learning language.
Define interacting
act in such a way as to have an effect on another; act reciprocally.
When are learners motivated to learn?
While they are trying to communicate or speak.
Define maturity
Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. Maturity is patience. It is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging set-backs.
Are the ways that learners choose and use to learn language.
Define process
a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
Focusing on the form of language in a more abstract way or general way.
Define expectations
a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.
Communicative activities include any activitiesthat encourage and require a learner to speak with and listen to other learners, as well as with people in the program and community. Communicative activities have real purposes: to find information, break down barriers, talk about self, and learn about the culture.
Define feedback
Process in which the effect or output of an action is 'returned' (fed-back) to modify the next action.
Why is it impottant the exposure of the language while learning a L1 or L2?
Because we can encourage our students to learn as much English as possible in their out of class time.
Define the silent period
is a phase reported to have been observed in second language acquisition where the learner does not yet produce but is actively processing the L2.[1][2] This silent period has been claimed to be typically found in children and has been called the second stage of second language acquisition.
What are learner training?
Learner training involves helping learners find out how they learn most effectively. It means encouraging learners to take responsibility for learning and helping them to develop learning strategies and study skills. ... The aim of learner training is to produce effective, independent language learners.
Define paraphrasing
express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.