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Theoretical Approaches To Explaining Second Language Learning PDF

The document discusses several theoretical approaches to explaining second language acquisition: 1. Behaviorism views language learning as habit formation through imitation, practice, and reinforcement. 2. Innatism posits that a Universal Grammar is available to second language learners, and examines how formal instruction affects their competence. 3. Interactionism holds that second language acquisition occurs through conversational interaction, which makes input comprehensible and promotes learning.

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The document discusses several theoretical approaches to explaining second language acquisition: 1. Behaviorism views language learning as habit formation through imitation, practice, and reinforcement. 2. Innatism posits that a Universal Grammar is available to second language learners, and examines how formal instruction affects their competence. 3. Interactionism holds that second language acquisition occurs through conversational interaction, which makes input comprehensible and promotes learning.

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Foreign Language Acquisition Oct.

11, 2004

L1 vs. L2 acquisition (p. 33)


l Learner characteristics
Theoretical approaches to 1. Knowledge of another language
2. Cognitive maturity
explaining second language 3. Metalinguistic awareness
Knowledge of the world
learning 4.
5. Nervousness about speaking
l Learning conditions
Behaviorism 1. Freedom to be silent
Innatism 2. Ample time
3. Corrective feedback: grammar and pronunciation
interactionism 4. Corrective feedback: word choice
5. Modified input

Behaviorism Innatism
l imitation, practice, reinforcement and habit l Universal Grammar
formation l Is UG available for L2 learners?
l All learning, where verbal or non-verbal, take l How formal instruction or errors correction will
place through the same underlying processes. affect the learner’s knowledge of the second
language?
l Learners receive linguistic input from the
environment and they form associations l Researchers who study SLA from the UG
perspective interested in competence of
between words and objects or events. advanced learners.
l Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) l Their investigations often involve comparing
l Incomplete explanation for language learning judgments of grammaticality by native speakers
and L2 learners.

Krashen’s monitor model Information processing


1. The acquisition-learning hypothesis l Second language acquisition as the
2. The monitor hypothesis building up of knowledge systems that can
3. The natural order hypothesis eventually be called on automatically.
l Limit amount of information a human can
4. The input hypothesis
pay attention to at one time.
5. The affected filter hypothesis
l Experience and practiceà automatic
l Noticing (Richard Schmidt)
l restructuring

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Foreign Language Acquisition Oct. 11, 2004

Connectionism The interactionist position


l Attribute greater importance to environment l Second language acquisition takes place
l What is innate is the ability to learn. through conversational interaction.
l Learners build up their knowledge of language l Interactional modification makes input
thorough exposure comprehensible, and thus promotes
l After learning language features in specific acquisition.
contexts over and over again, learners develop
stronger and stronger mental or neurological l How input is made comprehensible?
connections between these elements.
l Computer simulation shows generalization.

Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory


l All cognitive development, including
language development, arises as a result
of social interactions.
l Zone of proximal development
l Jim Lantolf and others claim that second
language learners advance to higher level
when they collaborate and interact with
more advanced speakers of the second
language.

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