First Language Acquisition
Second Language Acquisition
The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis
The Natural Order Hypothesis
The Monitor Hypothesis
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Acquiring language for the first time.
What is First Language Acquisition.
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The process of learning or acquiring another language.
What is Second Language Acquisition.
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The process of acquiring something subconsciously by exposure to models, a process of trial and error, and practice within social groups, WITHOUT formal teaching.
What is Acquisition.
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Krashen's second hypothesis in the Monitor Model.
What is that language is acquired in a natural order.
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Helps explain the different functions that acquisition and learning play.
What is The Monitor Hypothesis.
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When children begin to develop language they first start by making noises that we often respond to with "parentese" ore "motherese".
What is babbling.
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Here, monolingualism is the norm and bilingual people are considered exceptional.
What is the United States.
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A conscious process in which we focus on various aspects of language itself.
What is Learning.
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Krashen bases this hypothesis on studied carried out by these two individuals who collected samples of speech from Chinese and Spanish speaking students learning English.
What is Dulay and Burt (1974).
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Results in phonology, vocabulary, and syntax we can draw on to produce utterances in a new language.
What is Acquisition.
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The means by which humans communicate with one another.
What is language.
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The system if language the learner is developing.
What is Learner's Interlanguage.
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(True/False Question Answer) Learning language and it's grammar is the best way to acquire a new language.
What is False. Learning alone won't help acquire a new language; the more we are using the language and communicating with others, the better and faster we will acquire our new language.
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This applied to language that is acquired, not language that is learned.
What is the Natural Order.
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Helps us operate when we have time, when we focus on grammatical form, and when we know the rules.
What is the Monitor.
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According to Browns research, this is a universal phenomenon.
What is language development.
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This does not happen in most foreign language classes.
What is natural language acquisition.
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The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis was developed by this individual.
What is Krashen.
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Linguists only have a rudimentary understanding of the complete order of acquisition of phonemes, morphemes, syntax, etc. Therefore...
Why can't no book written can claim to mirror natural order?
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(True or False) It is helpful to know the rules and it isn't essential to know when to apply them and when to concentrate more on the message.
What is False. It is also important to know when to apply them and when to concentrate more on the message.
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Humans continue to develop this, but the basic structures of phonology and syntax are acquired early.
What is vocabulary.
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He said that "Children are born ready to become bilinguals, trilingual, and multilingual.
What is Baker (2006).
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Cindy took French in high school and took a couple extra classes in college. After graduating, she traveled to France for a month and struggled to speak the language fluently with the natives. After she returned home, she was sent to China to work in a corporate office and took a quick course on Chinese. After a month, she was speaking a lot better Chinese then she ever spoke French. Why is this?
What is the idea of acquisition. We acquire a language when we are placed in a situation where only that language can be used to communicate with others.
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(True/False) All language learners seem to acquire their language in the same order no matter what their first language may be.
What is True.
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(True or False) When we have the ability to fluently speak a language, we've also acquired the rules for formal written language.
What is False. Even though we can understand a speak a language, doesn't mean that we know all of the rules or that we can apply the rules to our written or spoken language skills.
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