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Audiolingual approach: Speaking skills over writing skills.
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Behaviorist: stimulus with response: repetition, imitation.
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Language Acquisition device (LAD). Shuts down after age 12. This allows children to be able to gain language skills naturally through the use of a Universal Grammar. Introduced the ideas of Competence: How language is structured and Performance: creative use of the language.
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This focuses on the cognitive ability of learners, looking at how we produce language meaning we plan it out first. Language is something we need to function and thus we learn it.
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Created bz Hymes: what role does context and social factors play in language both use and understanding. This goes beyond the grammar and structure. -
Canale and Swain took communicative competence and narrowed it down to for others.
Grammatical
Sociolinguistic
Strategic
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Krashen formed his Input Hypothesis, which shows that language is acquired based on input given to the learners. There is no output required. The input must be meaningful.
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This is what most teachers would call differentiation, as we need to meet the students where they are and scaffold to where they need to go. Chomsky's input hypothesis works perfectly with this. -
This goes against Krashen and states, that output and production is needed for acquisition, as it allows learner to recognize what they can and cannot do with language.
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Input comes from a variety of sources and needs to be used for comprehension and acquisition. Thus then the learned interacts with the language authentically and that is when acquisition happens. This is when negotiation of meaning happens.
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They were updated to show the interrelatedness between all the competences.
