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Introduction: describing and explaining L2 acquisition. Sukmawan Bimo S 2201410012. What is second language acquisition?. Second can refer to any language that is learned subsequent to the mother tongue Second also is not intended to contrast with ‘foreign’.
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Introduction: describing and explaining L2 acquisition SukmawanBimo S 2201410012
What is second language acquisition? • Second can refer to any language that is learned subsequent to the mother tongue • Second also is not intended to contrast with ‘foreign’
L2 acquisition can be defined as the way in which people learn a language other than their mother tongue, inside or outside of a classroom, and “Second Language Acquisition” as the study of this.
What are the goals of SLA? • One of the goals is same as the description of L2 acquisition. • Identifying the external and internal factors that account for why learners acquire an L2 in the way they do.
The goals of SLA, then, are to describe how L2 acquisition proceeds and to explain this process and why some learners seem to be better at it than others.
Two case studies • A case study is a detailed study of a learner’s acquisition of an L2. it is typically longitudinal, involving the collection of samples of the learner’s speech or writing over a period time, sometimes years.
A case study of an adult learners • A case of study of two child learners
Methodological issues • One issue has to do with what it is that needs to be described. • Language is such a complex phenomenon that researchers have generally preferred to focus on some spesific aspect rather than on the whole of it.
Another issue concerns what it means to say that learner has acquired a feature of the target language • Third problem in trying to measure whether acquisition has taken place concerns learners’ overuse of linguistic forms.
Issues in the description of learner language • One finding is that learners make errors of different kinds. • Another finding is that L2 learners acquire a large number of formulanic chunks, which they use to perform communicative function that are important to them and which contribute to the fluency of their unplanned speech.
An important issue in SLA is the role that these formulas play, not just enhancing learners performance but also in their acquisition of an L2.
