First Language Acquistion
Second Language Acquisition
Krashen's Monitor Model
Schumann's Acculturation Model
Output and Grammar
100
Babbling
What is the first sounds children make to begin developing language?
100
About 17 percent
What percentage of the United States is Bilingual?
100
Noam Chomsky's
Who's theories about language acquisition is Krashen's model based on.
100
Sociocultural factors
What is the most important factor Schumann focuses on in his model?
100
Language as structure or the traditional approach.
What is the most widely used approach to teach grammar?
200
Nouns and verbs
What are the most important types of words that children learn first?
200
Being in regular contact with individuals who speak that language and having a need to communicate with them.
What are the keys to learning a second language?
200
Five
How many different hypotheses are in Krashen's Model?
200
The perceived distance between an individual and a social group.
What is social distance?
200
Language as Structure, Language as Mental Faculty and Language as Functional Resource
What are the three approaches to teaching grammar to ELLs?
300
18 months
At what age does a child's vocabulary begin to grow significantly?
300
A first language is acquired while a second must be learned(like any other subject in school).
What do researchers say about the difference between learning a first and second langauge?
300
Language is acquired in a natural order, some parts naturally come first and the rest follow.
What is the Natural Order Hypothesis?
300
8 (Social dominance, Integration pattern, Enclosure, cohesiveness, size, cultural congruence, attitude, intended length of residence)
How many factors affect Social Distance?
300
No, he thinks it contributes very little.
Does Krashen believe learning grammar rules can help with language acquisition?
400
Noam Chomsky
Who believes that all humans are born with the basic structures, in their brain, of all human languages?
400
Neurolinguists, Sociolinguists and Psycholinguists
What are the three areas of research involved in researching language acquisition.
400
Comprehension, what a person is learning must be slightly above their skill level at the time.
What does the input hypothesis involve?
400
The amount that we think about a event, person or idea.
What is psychological distance?
400
Michael Halliday
Who helped create the third approach to grammar, Language as a Functional Resource?
500
Children do not make many errors when learning their first language.
What is the most compelling evidence for language being innate?
500
The smallest parts of words that carry meaning
What are Morphemes?
500
A student must be fully engaged and have a positive affective filter to learn.
How does the Affective Filter affect language acquisition?
500
3 (motivation, attitude, Culture)
How many factors affect psychological distance?
500
Australia
Where is Michael Halliday's language approach widely used in classrooms, across the country?
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