-
Period: to
Fist Language Acquisition
Informal language acquisiton. Here language was pick up out of the basic needs to communicate. Phonemic Repetition and Mimicking were in high at this primary stage -
-
Childrens memorial
hospital Where I was born. -
Elementary school
-
Formal language instruction began
-
Period: to
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN CHICAGO
I studied in the PUBLIC SCHOOLS system of Chicago -
-
Period: to
Time it took me to learn the L2
This were the stages of second language acquisition I went through. CHECK IT OUT! -
Stage I: Pre-production
Stages of Second Language Acquisition
This is the silent period. Language learners may have up to 500 words in their receptive vocabulary but they are not yet speaking. -
Stage II: Early production
Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition During this stage, students can usually speak in one- or two-word phrases. They can use short language chunks that have been memorized although these chunks may not always be used correctly. -
Stage III: Speech emergence
Students have developed a vocabulary of about 3,000 words and can communicate with simple phrases and sentences. -
Stage IV: Intermediate fluency
Beginning to use more complex sentences when speaking and writing and are willing to express opinions and share their thoughts. -
Stage V: Advanced Fluency
It takes students from 4-10 years to achieve cognitive academic language proficiency in a second language. Student at this stage will be near-native in their ability to perform in content area learning. -
Enrolled in Inter-American University
Here I continued to polish up and refine on my Spanish.
