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First Language Acquisition
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Krashen's Monitor Model
Schumann's Acculturation Model
More Second Language Acquisition Theories
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In developmental psychology, the emphasis for First Language Acquisition is on the focus of the ________.
What is the child?
100
An _____________ is the version of English an English language learner (ELL) speaks. It is different form the English of a native speaker, and yet it has consistent rules and a logic of it's own.
What is interlanguage?
100
Krashen's hypothesis that we acquire a new language subconsciously as we receive messages we understand.
What is the Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis?
100
In his model, Schumann focuses on ___________ factors that act on the language learner.
What is sociocultural?
100
The theorist who claimed that when we receive input that we understand, we focus on meaning--or the semantic level.
Who is Swain?
200
The ability to use the language appropriate to a particular social context
What is communicative competency?
200
The type of linguists who are concerned with how language is represented int he brain.
What is a Neurolinguist?
200
Krashen's hypothesis that language is acquired in a natural order and that some aspects of language are picked up earlier than others.
What is the Natural Order Hypothesis?
200
The three main factors that determine the psychological distance a second language learner has from the target language and culture.
What are motivation, attitude, and culture shock?
200
The theorist of Second Language Acquisition that claimed that Second Language Acquisition includes both input and output.
Who is VanLier?
300
The linguist who claims that language is innate and comes from that fact that there are certain kinds of errors that children never make.
Who is Chomsky?
300
The type of linguist that considers the influences of social and cultural factors on language development.
What is a Sociolinguist?
300
Krashen's hypothesis that helps explain the different functions that acquisition and learning play.
What is the Monitor Hypothesis?
300
Three of the eight factors that Schumann says influence social distance between the student and speakers of the target language
What is social dominance, integration pattern, enclosure, cohesiveness, size, cultural congruence, attitude, intended length of residence (any 3 of these)?
300
According to Derewianka, the approach to grammar instruction that involves identifying different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, and rules for making sentences).
What is Language as Structure?
400
Insights from sociology, anthropology, and education focus on the ____________ of the child and it's affect on their first language acquisition.
What is environment?
400
The term for the innate knowledge of language that humans are born with and the basic structures of all human languages are already present in the brain.
What is Universal Grammar?
400
Krashen's hypothesis that people acquire language in only one way--when they receive oral or written messages they understand.
What is the Input Hypothesis?
400
In opposition to Schumann, ______________ is the idea that involves losing one's primary culture and becoming "similar to" those of the target culture. Often times it results in the loss of the native language and culture.
What is assimilation?
400
According to Derewianka, the approach to grammar instruction for ELLs that is based on the work of Chomsky where language is a built-in mental ability.
What is Language as a Mental Faculty?
500
The insight of __________-The focus on the language, proposes that humans continue to learn vocabulary throughout their life, but the basic structures of phonology and syntax are acquired early.
What is Linguistics?
500
A process of acquiring something subconsciously by exposure to models, trial and error, and practice within social groups, without formal teaching.
What is acquisition?
500
Krashen's hypothesis that explains the role of affective factors (i.e. boredom and anxiety) in the process of language acquisition.
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
500
__________, from Schumann's theory, does not require that students give up their primary language and culture.
What is acculturation?
500
The grammatical approach, according to Derewianka, that is based on the idea that language usage is a series of choices based on the context of a situation.
What is Language as Functional Resource?