He found that the earliest utterances refereed to things of interest to children.
Who is Brown?
100
Failure to acquire to English could be explained by the fact that they did not acculturate to the new society.
Who are the Hmong?
100
Acquiring a new language subconsciously as we receive messages we understand.
What is the Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis?
100
In her review of teaching grammar to English language learners, identifies three approaches that have been used widely.
Who is Derewianka?
100
Provide different insights into first language acquisition.
What is child psychologists, sociologists, and linguists?
200
He found that children start with the most important words, such as nouns, and fill in adjectives adverbs to describe the objects.
Who is McGlothlin?
200
Experiencing more difficulty in learning a new language.
What is culture shock?
200
Language is acquired in a natural order. Some aspects of a language are picked up earlier than others.
What is the Natural Order Hypothesis?
200
Teach grammar rules explicitly and have students practice with decontextualized exercises.
What is Language as Structure?
200
Pose different questions about second language acquisition and have contributed different theories of second language acquisition.
Who are psycho-linguists, neuro-linguists, and socio-linguists?
300
A normal child acquires this knowledge of language on relatively slight exposure and without specific training.
Who is Chomsky?
300
Social dominance, Integration patterns, Enclosure, Cohesiveness, Size, cultural congruence, attitude, and Intended length of residence
What is Schumann's eight factors influence social distance?
300
Acquisition results in the phonology, vocabulary, and syntax we can draw on to produce utterances in a new language.
What is the Monitor Hypothesis?
300
Teach only a few grammar rules that students can use to monitor output.
What is Language as Mental Faculty?
300
Includes both input and output.
What is Van Lier's model?
400
Universal Grammar and the Language Acquisition Device apply equally well to children or adults acquiring a second language.
Who is Krashen
400
Helps reduce the psychological distance between her students and the target language.
What is motivation?
400
People acquire language in only one way--when they recieve oral or written messages they understand.
What is the Input Hypothesis?
400
Following a curriculum cycle, teach grammar forms and functions through modeling, joint construction, and individual practice.
What is Functional Resource?
400
Proposed that output plays a key role in second language acquisition.
Who is Swain?
500
Language acquisition can best be understood by looking at what happens when people from one culture group are transplanted into a new setting.
Who is Schumann?
500
Results in the loss of the native language and culture.
What is assimilation?
500
Factors such as anxiety or boredom may serve as a filter that blocks input.
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
500
Students are asked to notice, but are not asked to produce forms.
What is structure the input?
500
Claims that acquiring a second language is part of a general process of acculturation and depends on the social and psychological distance between the learner group and the target language group.