What is the difference between Learning and Aquisition?
Learning focuses on understanding and memorizing rules by giving instructions and memorizing rules.
Aquisition is a natural picking up of L2 forms without any instructions in an uncontrolled setting
What are the 3 Perspectives on Language Learning?
Behaviourism
Innatist Persepctive
Cognitive Constructivism
Learning = habit formation
language aquisition = Imitation, conditioning and positive reinforcement
Language Aquisition Device in a separate faculty of the brain
Universal Grammar allows learners to discover a language system´s underlying rules
Linguistic principles are innate
Learning as internal mental process
Children learn languages by schematising, assimilating accommodating
Ability to learn is innate
Social Constructivism
Learning is a social process where interaction plays a major role
“Zone of Proximal Development” what can be learned with help of more skilled peers
What is a “Mistake” and an “Error”
Which types of errors exist?
global error
local error
interlingual error
intralingual error
Which error is described?
harms the understanding, e.g. the used words does not exist in L2
occurs maybe once, do not harm understanding
developmental (incomplete learning)
Interference of the native language
What is the meaning of Overgeneralization?
learners create their own rules and use them
How can errors be decribed?
grammatical categories (S-V agreement)
lexical errors (collocations)
Misordering
Omission
What claims the Interlanguage Theory?
learner language = a linguistic system in its own right#
interim grammar = system of implicit L2 knowlegde
learners develop and amend interlanguage over time
How to react to an error / mistake?
implicit correction in recasts
explicit correction provides the correct form
clarification request
elicitation of the correct form by repeating or leaving the gap
metalinguistic feedback, does not give the correct form but comments on the type of error or the rule they using an item
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