Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Second Language Acquisition
Processes/Theories
- Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
- Contributor: Jim Cummans
- Refers to formal academic language. It is crucial
for students to succeed in school. It includes
listening, speaking, reading, and writing within
subject areas and content.
- Comparing, synthesizing, classifying,
evaluating and inferring skills within
the classroom. 5-7 years to gain.
- Context of academic tasks becomes
more and more reduced.
- Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
- The language skills used in social
situations. Pretty much the day-to-day
language that children need to interact
socially with others
- Contributor: Jim Cummans
- Seeing how they use their social
language skills on the playground,
lunchroom, school bus, or just in the
classroom
- Their social skills with
others
- Universal Grammar
- Noam Chomsky
- The ability to learn grammar is hard-wired
into the brain. It suggests that linguistics
ability manifests itself without being taught,
and that there are properties that all natural
human languages share.
- It is a matter of observation and
experimentation to determine precisely what
abilities are innate and what properties are
shared by all languages
- Through observation, there are clear signs of progression through work and seen
through language.
- Input hypothesis
- Stephen
Krashen
- Put importance on the comprehensible
input that language learners are
exposed to.
- Understanding spoken and written language input
- Learners progress in their knowledge of the
language when they comprehend language input that
is slightly more advanced than their current level
- Critical Period Hypothesis
- Wilder Penfield
- This hypothesis claims that there is an
ideal time window to acquire language in a
linguistically rich environment, after which
further language acquisition becomes much
more difficult and effortful.
- Present individual with
adequate stimuli and language
will ocur
- Mostly shown by visual development