Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Second Language Acquistion
- Input Hypothesis
- Stephen Krashen
- everyone learns the same way
- comprehension of messages
- comprehensible input
- understanding message being told
- talking is not a form of practicing
- understand message being read
- learning is not a matter of differences, but similarities
- applications within classrooms
- use of a relaxing environment
- allows for the input to reach the child
- less emphasis of speaking as practice
- curriculum based on the comprehension of message
- BICS vs. CALP
- Jim Cummins
- BICS
- Basic interpersonal communicative skills
- smallest aspect of language
- high frequency vocabulary
- conversational frequency that is
picked up quickly
- CALP
- cognitive academic language proficiency
- takes five to seven years for ell
to catch up to grade level
- language used in textbooks
and assessments
- Classroom applications
- forces teachers to look
at the type of language
ell's are learning
- how are their conversations with peers?
- find new strategies that give
children more access to the
academic language they require
- more textbooks
- Universal Grammar
- Noah Chomsky
- ability to learn grammar
hard-wired in to brain
- manifests without being taught
- "mental grammar"
- brain automatically understands and
distinguishes differences of language
- nouns
- verbs
- Classroom Applications
- less drill of grammar
- no teaching of phoneme awareness
- no spelling rules
- more use of time for practicing
- have kids writing