Second Language Acquisition
Processes and Theories
The interactionist model
Contributor:
Long
Description:
Teachers need to
provide many
opportunities for
English learners to
engage in discourse
with native speakers
of English, in a
variety of situations.
Application:
Using peer
conversation
as a means
of enriching a
student's
exposure to
language.
communicative competence
Contributor:
Hymes
Application: Students
listen to and repeat
conversations, role play
situations involving
complaints or apologies,
and work to expand their
repertoire of common
phrases
Description: the
knowledge that enables
language users to "convey
and interpret messages
and to negotiate meanings
interpersonally within
specific contexts.
Total physical response
Contributor:
Asher
Description:
Students respond to
an oral command
that is
simultaneously
being modeled.
Application: The
teacher says
"stand" while
standing up and
"sit" while sitting
down, and students
follow along
transformational grammar
Contributor:
Chomsky
Application: Teachers
don't teach students
language, the students
will hear the teacher
speaking as the teacher
does naturally and they
will grow up competent
speakers
Description:
Human beings,
once exposed to the
language(s) of their
environment, use
their innate ability
to understand and
produce sentences
they have never
before heard,
because the mind
has the capacity to
internalize and
construct language
rules.
interlanguage theory
Contributor
Selinker:
Application: It is compatible with
error analysis and data-driven
teaching so teachers should use
assessments to shape subsequent
instruction.
Description: Second-language learners draw from three sources of
information: the rules of their own language, a general knowledge
about the way languages work, and the rules of the new language that
they acquire gradually.