General concepts
What are the three perspectives of SLA frameworks?
Linguistic, psychological, social
Name the two focies of the linguistic perspective
Internal and external focus
- Who argued that there was a critical period for language acquisition?
- Eric Lenneberg (1967)
- True or false: the social framework focuses on using language in social contexts
True
- True or false: quesadillas must be prepared with cheese.
True
Explain the internal focus
Sets the goal of study as accounting for speakers’ internalized and underlying knowledge of language.
What does the learner differences framework take into account?
Emotional involvement in learning, such as affective factors of attitude, motivation and anxiety level.
- Name the two foci of the social perspective
- Microsocial
- Macrosocial
Who was the best-paid actor in 2018?
- George Clooney ($239 million)
Explain the external focus
Emphasizes language use, including the functions of language which are realized in learners’ production at different stages of development.
What does the acronym IP mean?
Information processing
- Name the focus/purpose/object of study of the microsocial foci
- It focuses on the immediate use of language in which people produce, interpret, and interact with others.
- Name the movie that has earned more money than any other in history
- Avatar ($2.787.965.087 billion)
- Name a framework of the external linguistic perspective
Functionalism
- Name the three foci of the psychological perspective
- Languages and the brain
- Learning processes
- Learner differences
- Name a theory and an author of a social framework
- Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory
- Howard Giles’ Acculturation theory
- Who was the best-paid actress in 2018?
- Scarlett Johansson ($40.5 million)
Name a theory that had an internal inguistic framework and its author
Noam Chomsky - Transformational-Generative Grammar/ Principles and Parameters Model/ Minimalist Program
What is connectionism about?
- It considers language learning to result from increasing strength of associations between stimuli and response, rather than innate knowledge.
- What was the difference between Piaget's and Vygotsky's ideas about cognitive and linguistic development?
- While Piaget suggested that cognitive development is universal, Vygotsky stated that it varied according to the sociocultural/cultural context
- Where is current Mexico's president (AMLO) from and how old is he?
Tepetitan, Tabasco. 65 years old.