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
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
①The textbook deals all language skills introducing various texts including cultural information.
In Chapter 4, the main topic is Dol party, the first birthday celebrated in Korea. It covers Korean culture, so it is suitable for the course goals as well as the communication skills.
② Since the students needs and interests are different, the textbook can’t cover all although it has lots of
< Textbook Information >
Activity book Appendices: answers, listening script, activity materials, Chapter review quiz (12), Grammar point, Voca/idioms index
Lesson format: Warm up-Listen in (Listen and Speak A)-Speak out (Listen and Speak B)-Make Friends, Get Ready for Reading (Grammar practice)
Read (Read and Write A), Do you understand/After you read (Read and write B), write on, Mission
Grammar
• ‘to’ infinitive : I have him a chance to live.
• Subjunctive mood: What would you do if you were the young man?
These two major grammatical features, in contrast to functional features dealt in function, are mainly practiced in reading comprehension and writing task. Since reading passages and writing task are mainly focused in exercising the usage of subjunctive moo