The focus is on the child, the environment, and the language.
What are the three areas of study for first language acquisition?
100
A child learns one language at home and then another language in preschool or elementary school.
What is sequential bilingualism?
100
Indigenous and immigrant language speakers shift their language to use the more dominant language.
What is language shift?
200
The dependence of children's linguistic output.
What is the way scientist examine children's learning of language.
200
The spoken language of English an ELL speaks, that shows a consistent pattern with the rules of its own language.
What is interlanguage?
200
Power that those who do not speak the language well do not have.
What is linguistic capital?
300
Communicative competence
What is the ability to use the language appropriate to a particular social context?
300
It consists of five interrelated hypotheses: acquisition/learning, natural order, monitor, and input.
What is Krashen's Monitor Model?
300
Bilinguals develop the languages they need to speak to different people in different settings when discussing different subjects.
What is Grosjean's complementarity principle?
400
Humans are born with the basic structures of all human languages already present in the brain.
What is Chomsky's theory of language acquisition?
400
Part of a general process of acculturation and depends on the social and psychological distance between the learner group and the target language group.
What is Schumann's acculturation model?
400
The attributes of the individual, such as memory or abstract reasoning, and specific conceptual and linguistic knowledge derived from experience and learning.