Zusammenfassung der Ressource
5 Theories of SLA
- Arbitrary vocal symbols
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Structionalism- ordered internal relationships
- consists of words (units) and their relationships
- Role of unit depends on overall structure
- classroom application: understanding children might have different views on what certain objects are
- Example: Furniture. May be a couch to one, or a table to another
- System of language
- Structural Linguistics
- Signified vs Referenced
- synchrony vs diachrony
- paradigm vs syntagm
- Frees language of associations
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Classroom application: knowing that children may have different words for the same term
- cat vs kitty or gato
- BICS
- Jim Cummins
- Basic interpersonal communication skills
- language that is used all around
- what teachers hear within social interaction
- Not necessarily academic language
- classroom application: can observe how the children notice and use language in a social setting
- CALP
- Jim Cummins
- Cognitive academic language proficiency
- Linguistic demands
- takes over 12 years to become fluent and proficient in a language
- classroom application: understanding that academic language isn't the same as social language
- Universal Grammar
- Noam Chomsky
- all human grammar shares the same basic tools
- Functional florishes
- classroom application: seeing how different languages can vary but all come from the same basics can be helpful in language acquisition