Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Social contexts of
second language
acquisiton
- Communicative competence
- “what a speaker needs to know to communicate
appropriately within a particular language
community” (Saville-Troike 2003).
- Microsocial Factors
- Has been based on
the framework of the
accomodation
theory.
- Speakers change their
pronunciation and even the
grammatical complexity of
sentences they use to sound
more like whomever they are
talking to.
- Variable features
- Are multiple linguistic forms which
are used by different speakers of a
language, or by the same speakers
at different times, with the same
meaning and function; which
occur at every linguistic level.
- The type of variable feature that can occur
depends on the communicative context
- Linguistic context
- Language
form and
function
Ex:Coming/comin’
- Psychological context
- The attention given during the
production
- Microsocial context
- Interaction related to
communicative events when the
language is being produced