Acculturation hypothesis
“ the degree of acculturation toward the ‘model’ language group seems to be the primary consideration in attempting to account for the varied levels of linguistic achievement reached by second language learners”
Korean Wes
Literacy Ability (reading, writing) Grammar skill High Low
Communication skills
(listening, speaking) Low High
language used in the textbook are being used frequently in a daily life.
⑤ Topics, situations, contexts, and activities are appropriate for the learners.
⑥ Only activity book is appropriate for each level of the students. The textbook does not consider the proficiency level of each student. It covers general texts and activities. To complement this limitation, the activity book includes
The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
The first language system interferes with the second language system.
Structural analysis on the two language would enable teachers to predict the difficulties in acquiring second language.
It is quite common to detect where the speaker is from just by listening to his/her accent.
e.g.) French
Ladies and gentlemen
CLT (Communicative Language Teaching)
Communicative Language Teaching refers to
An approach to language teaching methodology that
emphasizes the development of a learners’
communicative competence
in the target language.
CLT (Communicative Language Teaching)
Classroom goals are focused on all of the components of CC and not restricted to gramma
1. Choose one difference between English (L1) and another language (L2).
Korean can express various meanings by using lots of verbal forms with suffixes. In the case of English, even though it also has several suffixes such as -ed(past tense in regular form), -ing(progressive form), -ly(adverb), and -tion(to make a noun form), it cannot make difference of their meanings in terms of semanti