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This document discusses sources of variability in learner language from three approaches: linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic. The sociolinguistic approach examines social factors that influence variability and cites Labov's paradigm of speech styles and variable rules. The psycholinguistic approach views variability as arising from limitations in planning, monitoring, and adjusting language production. Variability may also occur through free variation when a learner randomly uses different forms to convey the same meaning.

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SLA - PPT Variability in Language Learner

This document discusses sources of variability in learner language from three approaches: linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic. The sociolinguistic approach examines social factors that influence variability and cites Labov's paradigm of speech styles and variable rules. The psycholinguistic approach views variability as arising from limitations in planning, monitoring, and adjusting language production. Variability may also occur through free variation when a learner randomly uses different forms to convey the same meaning.

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Variability in

Learner Language
Rezza Anugerah
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Introduction

▸Second-language acquisition proceeds in discrete


sequences
▸Learners sometimes make an error, sometimes
they do not
▸Variability
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Three Approaches
“ Lingustic Sociolinguistic Psycholinguistic

as a feature of
general social
performance internal
factors (class,
errors. performance
ethnicity, etc)
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Systematic Variation
Sociolinguistic Models

The Labovian Paradigm

Speech Variable
Style Rules
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Systematic Variation
Sociolinguistic Models

The Labovian Paradigm


Speech Style -> style shifting
▸Social factors as gender, social class, ethnicity, etc
▸Attention as topic, interlocuter, and setting.
▸Example : -ing which may be pronounced -In
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Systematic Variation
Sociolinguistic Models

Variable rules
▸ An aspect of that competence that underlies
production.
▸ Example : be
He is going to He’s going to He gonna go to
go to school go to school school
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Systematic Variation
Sociolinguistic Models

The Dynamic Paradigm


▸Environmental weight, a specific linguistic environment.
▸Code switching, a speaker who have access to more than
one lect.
▸Free Variation, more forms are used randomly to show the
same function.
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Systematic Variation
Sociolinguistic Models

Social psychological models


▸The language attitudes of speakers to their actual
language use.
▸Convergence, adjust their normal speech.
▸Divergence, make their speech dissimilar.
▸Speech maintenance, do not make any changes.
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Psycholinguistic Models

Planning
Monitoring
Models
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Psycholinguistic Models

Planning models
▸Conceptualizer, situational factors and specific
communicative intentions.
▸Formulator, pre-verbal message is converted into a speech
plan.
▸Articulator, converts the speech plan into actual speech.
▸Speech comprehension system, feedback which enable to
make adjustments in the conceptualizer.
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Psycholinguistic Models

Monitoring
▸Speaker may monitor their output
▸Implementing a plan and make appropriate
adjustments, compare the final result with original
intention.
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Free Variation
▸Two or more forms are used randomly to show the same
function.
▸A 10-year-old Portuguese boy;
▸No look my card
▸Don’t look my card
▸Free variation occurs during an early stage of development
and then disappears as learners develop better organized L2
systems.
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THANKS!

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