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Children vs. Adults in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

Children vs. Adults in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Lec . 8. Children are better: A common belief. Young second language learners seem to pick up quickly just by exposure and without teaching. . Factors involved in SLA . Social . 1. Type of situations

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Children vs. Adults in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

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  1. Children vs. Adults in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Lec. 8

  2. Children are better: A common belief • Young second language learners seem to pick up quickly just by exposure and without teaching.

  3. Factors involved in SLA Social 1. Type of situations (natural situation vs. classroom) 2. Settings Interactions (EFL vs. ESL) Psychological • Intellectual processing • Memory • Motor skills • Motivation & attitude

  4. Basic psychological factors1. intellectual processing: explication & induction • There are only two processes by which one can learn the syntax of a second language: someone can explain rules to you, explication, or you can figure them out, induction.

  5. Basic psychological factors1. intellectual processing: explication & induction • 1.1 Explication • The nature of explication • Why language cannot be learned completely by explication • Explication is rarely applicable to young children • Teaching simple & complex rules

  6. I. Basic psychological factors1. intellectual processing: explication & induction • Induction

  7. Basic psychological factors2. memory • Memory • Vocabulary learning & rote memory • Syntax learning & episodic memory • Children’s memory ability (0 - 7) & (7 – 12)

  8. Basic psychological factors3. motor skills • Motor skills • Articulators of speech • Decline in general motor skills • Decline in ability for new articulations

  9. Summery of 3 important psychological factors

  10. Other psychological factors: motivation & attitude Attitude Positive attitude vs. negative attitude By age 4, children have developed attitudes towards language Motivation • Children (1 – 2) no motivation • Children (4 – 5) may need motivation

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