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INTRODUCTION TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. APRILYA DWI PERMATASARI 2201410083. What is second language acquisition?. Second language refer to any language that people learn besides of their mother tongue. Second language also is more actively use by the people on their daily life.

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INTRODUCTION TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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  1. INTRODUCTIONTO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION APRILYA DWI PERMATASARI 2201410083

  2. What is second language acquisition? Second language refer to any language that people learn besides of their mother tongue. Second language also is more actively use by the people on their daily life.

  3. Second language acquisition is the study of the second language.

  4. What are the goals of sla? SLA will be examined from three vantage points: • as linguistic knowledge • as a cognitive skill • as a socially and personality-meditated process

  5. The goals of ‘second language acquisition’: • Explanation • Description

  6. Explanation is identifying the external and internal factors that account for why learners acquire an L2 in the way they do.

  7. Descriptions are to describe how L2 acquisition proceeds and to explain this process and why some learners to be better at it than others.

  8. TWO CASE STUDIES To achieve the description goal, there two case studies of L2 learners: • A case study of an adult learners • A case study of child learners

  9. A case study of an adult learners An adult learners mostly use learn the L2 to achieve their goals in their daily life. Most of the adult learners know about the rules of making sentences, but sometimes they forget to use the rules, such as the use of auxiliary be, plural –s(ex:spoons), third person –s(comes), and regular past tense (ex:jumped).

  10. A case study of child learners Child learners mostly learn the L2 as a subject on their school. The problem that mostly we find on the child learners is about an incomplete structure of a sentence. Child just use signal to show what they mean. Their request were verbless.

  11. Methodological issues • Issue that concerns what it means to say that a learners have ‘acquired’ a feature of the target language. • Problem in determining whether learners have ‘acquired’ a particular feature. • Problem in trying to measure whether ‘acquisition’ has taken place concern learners’ overuse of linguistic forms.

  12. Methodological issues • Issues in the description of learner language • Issues in the explanation of L2 acquisition

  13. Issues in the description of learner language One of the most interesting issues raised by these case studies is whether learners acquire the language systematically. These studies, then, suggest that learners do acquire aspects of an L2 systematically and, moreover, that they follow particular developmental routes, with some features, with some features being acquired before others.

  14. Issues in the explanation of L2 acquisition The systematic nature of L2 acquisition also requires explanation. Why did Wes seem to learn some grammatical items before others? Why did J and R learn the different ways of making a request in the particular sequence they did? There are number of possible explanations.

  15. One is that learners follow a particular developmental pattern because their mental faculties are structured in such a way that this is they way they have to learn. Other explanations emphasize the importance of external as opposed to internal factors.

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