This document discusses concepts related to second language acquisition (SLA). It covers several key points:
1. SLA involves the unconscious creation of a linguistic system that evolves over time as the learner is exposed to input in the target language.
2. Input refers to the language that learners hear or read that has communicative intent, and it must be comprehensible for acquisition to occur. There are conversational and non-conversational forms of input.
3. The developing linguistic system has multiple interrelated components, including associations between forms and meanings, syntactic rules, and competencies like comprehension, production, learning, and social interaction. The system progresses through accommodation and restructuring as the learner gains experience
2. CHAPTER ONE
SOME GIVENS ABOUT SLA
CONCEPTS:
CONTEXT OF LEARNING: ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH
LANGUAGES ARE LEARNED.
SECOND LANGUAGE CONTEXT
FOREINGN LANGUAGE CONTEXT
3. Characteristics of SLA:
1. SLA involves the creation of an implicit (unconscious)
linguistic system.
2. SLA is complex and consists of different processes.
3.SLA is dynamic but slow: The implicit system one
creates evolves over time.
Acquisition order vs. developmental stages
4. Most L2 learners fall short of native like competence
4. CHAPTER TWO
INPUT
Common meaning: Refers to some kind of explicit information about
something.
Second Language Acquisition: Language that a learner HEARS or
READS that has some kind of communicative intent (Message).
Learner job is to understand that message, to COMPREHEND THE
MEANING of the utterance or sentence.
6. The Developing
System
Progress,
Evolving,
changing
Unity,
Diverse,
Common
purpose
Different component
forming a whole, working
together
A linguistic
system also has
multiple
component that
act as whole
1. A network of
associations
2. A syntactic
component
consisting of rules
3. A set of
competences
Component
s:
Comprehension
Speech
production
Learning
Social
interaction
Semantic
relationshi
p
Lexical
relationshi
p
Formal
relationship
Communicati
on
Languag
e
Accommodation
Restructuring
Pragmatic and sociolinguistic
COMPETENCE
7. The Developing
System
Progress,
Evolving,
changing
Unity,
Diverse,
Common
purpose
Different component
forming a whole, working
together
A linguistic
system also has
multiple
component that
act as whole
1. A network of
associations
2. A syntactic
component
consisting of rules
3. A set of
competences
Component
s:
Comprehension
Speech
production
Learning
Social
interaction
Semantic
relationshi
p
Lexical
relationshi
p
Formal
relationship
Communicati
on
Languag
e
Accommodation
Restructuring
Pragmatic and sociolinguistic
COMPETENCE