First Language Acquisition
What is First Language Acquisition?
What is the way a child learns their native/first language?
What is a learner's interlanguage?
What is the version of English and English language learner speaks?
What are the five hypothesis proposed by Krashen?
What is the acquisition/learning hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the input hypothesis, and the affective filter hypothesis?
What does Schumann claim?
What is acquiring a new language is part of a more general process of acculturation? (125).
What are the three areas that research has been done for first language acquisition?
What is the child, the environment, and the language?
What are the three fields in the book that asked questions and attempted to answer them?
What is the psycholinguists, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguists?
What is the difference between the acquisition hypothesis and learning hypothesis?
What is that acquisition is where we acquire language subconsciously vs learning where a person focuses on the language?
What are the two types of distances that Schumann mentions in his theory?
What is the insights from developmental psychology-focus on the child?
What is the way that a child learns to talk and the progression they go through?
What are three questions that psychologists have tried to answer?
What is:
1.How does the learner develop his or her second language system? WHat are thought to be the processes involved?
2.What role does previous knowledge, such as first language, play in second language acquisition?
3.What psychological characteristics contribute to successful second language acquisition? Are there good learners and bad learners?
Pg. 111
What is the Input hypothesis and the Affective Filter hypothesis?
What is the ability to acquire language in only one way which is oral or written; and what is the factors that get in the way of learning such as boredom and anxiety?
What are the three main factors that Schumann says plays a role in psychological distance?
What is insight from sociology, anthropology, and education- focus on the environment?
What is the meaning of the phrase a child says based on the interactions in their surrounding environment?
What are three questions that neurolinguistics are attempting to answer?
What is:
1. Where in the brain are first and second language located?
2. What are the ways that languages with different characteristics are represented in the brain?
3. Is there a critical period for second language acquisition?
Pg. 112
What is the Monitor hypothesis?
What is the explanation for the different functions that acquisition and learning play. The monitor is like an editor and operates when a person focuses, have the time and know the rules?
What are the eight factors that Schumann says plays a role in social distance?
What is social dominance, integration pattern, enclosure, cohesiveness, size, cultural congruence, attitude, and intended length of stay?
What is insight from linguistics- focus on the language?
What is the region of the brain designated for learning the first language and how children already have acquired the basic rules of language without formal instructions or exposure to models of the language?
What are the five questions that sociologists are trying to answer?
What is:
1. Is interlanguage variation systematic or random and, if systematic, according to what social variables does it vary?
2. Does the learner's interlanguage change over time?
3.What is the role of sociolinguistic transfer in L2 communicative competence?
4. What is the nature of L2 communicative competence?
5. What is the "cause" of variation in interlanguage?
Pg. 112
What is the Natural Order hypothesis?
What is the order in which language is acquired naturally? Meaning that some forms of language are picked up sooner than others?
What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation?
What is acculturation being when a person takes on an new culture without giving up their own?