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Acculturation and Language Acquisition Stages

Acculturation and Language Acquisition Stages. TTWELL Summer Institute 2010. As I sit here I wonder if you, my teacher, are able to tell when I’m sinking in spirit and ready to quit this incredible task. I walked a thousand miles, dear teacher, before I met you. - ESL student

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Acculturation and Language Acquisition Stages

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  1. Acculturation and Language Acquisition Stages TTWELL Summer Institute 2010

  2. As I sit here I wonder if you, my teacher, are able to tell when I’m sinking in spirit and ready to quit this incredible task. I walked a thousand miles, dear teacher, before I met you. - ESL student Ontario Department of Education Many Roots, Many Voices, p. 4

  3. Acculturation Stages • Honeymoon Stage • Withdrawal/Rejection Stage • Regression Stage • Adjustment or Integration Stage • Acceptance Stage

  4. Honeymoon Stage • Excitement about all that is new • Enthusiastic about learning

  5. Withdrawal/Rejection Stage • Overwhelmed • May appear sleepy in class • Irritable • Withdrawn and uninterested in learning • Emotional basis for resistance to new culture and language

  6. Regression Stage • Socialize with those of similar backgrounds, home language • Homesickness • Can display anger • Initial gains in language may regress

  7. Adjustment or Integration Stage • Signs of actively adapting to new culture and language challenges • Infusion of home and new culture—seek ways to participate in both • Dependent upon balance between home language and English

  8. Acceptance Stage • Active and successful participation in mainstream culture • Pragmatic use of both languages and cultures • Can mean refusal to use native language at home

  9. General facts: Second Language Acquisition • Errors in L1 transfer to L2 • Errors are developmental in nature, which parallels L1 development • Overgeneralization (ex: -ed ending for all past forms) • Code switching: need to allow use of L2 • Elimination (ex: articles) • Focus on errors that interfere with comprehension

  10. Language Acquisition Stages Progression is individualized… • Silent period or preproduction • Neither oral nor written language use • Early production • One- or two-word oral responses • Drawing rather than writing responses

  11. Language Acquisition Stages (cont’d) • Speech emergence • Phrases or short sentences (orally) • Words and short phrases on paper • Intermediate fluency • Beginning conversational interchanges • Short basic sentences; loose sense of paragraphs

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