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stimulent-response-reinforcement
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children learn language based reinforcement principles by associating words with meanings
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Notable American linguist - language is innate, everyone has the ability to use language.
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Linguist : acquisition-learning, the input hypothesis, monitor hypothesis, the affective filter
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Authentic Texts, interaction
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shift towards understanding how sentences are connected. Structure and Function
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grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and social knowledge.
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Selinker concluded that interlanguages are systematic and dynamic. Created by the 5 cognative processes.
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Aquisition occurs when learner receives optimal quantity of comprehensible input.
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Zone of Proximal development, a specific zone in which learners will be able to further their understanding without being given too much information that it overwhelms them, but not too little that it is easy to do.
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Sociocultural competence, discourse,
linguistic
formulaic
interactional
strategic -
input comprehensible from; simplifying the input, using linguistic and extralinguistic features, modifying the interactional structure of the conversation
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Words should be associated with their meaning and not a translation, using gestures or actions.
