Second Language Acquisition Theories
Age: children
The Superior Temporal Gyrus (Temporal Lobe)
The knowledge of language that is in a person's mind or brain is defined as:
a) Language Competence
b) Language Performance
a) Language Competence.
Perception of sounds
Language as structure
Language as mental faculty
Language as a functional resource
How do you understand language works?
When you understand the other's purposes and intentions.
Identify the location of your occipital lobe.
If they point to the back of the head, they are right.
Age: Adults
Brocca's Area
Which dimensions are shaped by language?
Space, time, causality and relationships.
Literacy
Language as a functional resource
Which is the only condition children must fulfill to learn ABOUT language?
Everything they learn must make sense to them.
What is the function of Broca's area?
It serves to produce articulate speech.
Interlanguage
Wernicke’s area is roughly where the temporal lobe and parietal lobe meet, and it is involved in language comprehension.
What's the role of culture in language learning process?
The context demand us to survive, it means, we have to solve problems.
MCER Action-Oriented Approach
Action-Oriented Approach
If aspects of languages are inherent, and are located in specific location in the brain, why to teach?
We teach language to make our students aware of the language purpose.
The learners doing a project in teams, correcting each other, is an activity that follows this theory.
Constructivist Theory
Fossilization
Perception, retention of short-term and long-term memories. It processes sensory input, including auditory information, language comprehension, naming and emotional reactions
What is the definition of language performance?
Production and comprehension.
Mediation of Communication
It is a requirement for teachers to know techniques and strategies to teach an specific field of knowledge.
Accordingly Frank Smith proposal, what is the highest challenge for teachers when teaching language?
Teachers must integrate the four skills with the curriculum and the learner's mind.
Define three kinds of memory.
Sensory, short-term, long-term, implicit, explicit, declarative, procedural, episodic, semantic.
Bilingualism
Attention, executive functions and motor performance, thought, voluntary movement and language production.
Accordingly to the text "How language shapes thought" define the human beings adaptability concept.
The human beings are flexible and they have adapted to different situations and contexts, what have made possible the apparition of different languages around the globe.
Mediation of Texts
The development of internal rules to understand and produce language.
Why does Frank Smith affirm that children don't learn language skill by skill, and they use those skills to understand people?
Children first understand language, then they become aware of each of the skills they could improve when using language.
Which culture was the first to catalog the effects of specific damage to the brain?
The Egyptians