SUMMARY AND PICTURES WHICH REPRESENT LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

4. theory

5.  All human languages are innate.
Babies
are
programmed
to
distinguish
between ungrammatical and grammatical.
 Environment makes a basic contribution.

6.  Interaction between people and objects
 The importance of the environment

8.  Children seem to be aware that language is rule
governed.
 They get engaged with the search of language
rules.
E.g. Use of negatives - No jump – Don´t jump

9. 1) Earliest vocalization
2) Cooing – velar sounds
3) Babbling – vowel sounds – fricative – nasal
4) 9 months – use vocalization to express
emotions and emphasis

10.  12 – 18 months a child speaks single - words
 Generally these words are objects
milk - Mummy – Daddy – door - toy

11.  A child is able to speak two separated words
and combined them to get a meaning.
 Context is essential.
Eg. Milk and cookies.
o possession
o request
o Catch someone´s attention

12.  Two – Three years old
 Telegraph format
 Multi-words utterances
 E.g. Emma want doll

13. The child linguistic production is a matter of
trying out constructions and testing if they
work or not.

14. 1. Present progressive
- ING-
2. Plural – ‘s
3. Irregular past form
4. Possessives - Joe‘s
5. Copula - Joe is happy
6. Regular past - ed
7. Third person singular simple present - He says..
8. auxiliary be

15. Stage 1
No. No doll .
Stage 2
Mum no doll
Don´t touch my doll

16. Stage 3
I can´t do that. He don´t know
Stage 4
You didn´t bring me the doll.
She doesn´t want it.

17. Wh- questions
1. What?
2. Where? Who?
3. Why?
4. When? How?

18. Stage 1
 Cookie? My doll?
 Where´s dad? What´s that?
Stage 2

You like this?

19. Stage 3
 Can I go? Are you there?
 Fronting – Do I can have a cookie?
Stage 4

Are you going to play with me?
 Do dogs like ice-cream?

20. Stage 5
 Wh- questions
 Yes-No questions
 Negative questions are still a bit
difficult.
Stage 6
 Children are able to correctly form all
questions types.

21. Limited vocabulary and different meanings

23. Acquisition: refers to the gradual development of
ability in a language by using it naturally.
Learning: conscious process of accumulating
knowledge of vocabulary and grammar.

25.  Universal Grammar

26.  Lack of time to acquire a language.
 Known of the language.
 Difficulties in pronunciation.
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27.  Unwilling or embarrassment
 Lack of empathy with the culture

28.  Grammar-translation
 Long list of words.
 Memorize grammatical rules.
 Emphasis on the written language.

29.  Audiolingual
 Emphasis on the spoken language.
 Moving simple structures to complex ones.
 Language learning is a process of habit formation

30.  Direct
 No translation is allowed
 The meaning is to be conveyed through the use
of demonstration and visual aids.

31. Linguistic system and considered the basis of all L2
production.

32.  Once L2 learners achieve success they
feel more motivated to learn.

33.  Use L2 . accurately, appropriately and flexibly

Grammatical competence involves the accurate use
of words and structures in L2.

Sociolinguistic competence enable students to learn
to know when to say what to whom.

Strategic competence is the ability to organize a
message effectively and to overcome if there is
any difficulty.