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
and phonology.”
Discourse Competence
: the ability we have to connect sentences in stretches of discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances.
→ Reflect the use of the linguistic system itself
Sociolinguistic Competence
: the knowledge of the sociocultural rules of language and of discourse.
Strategic Competence
: the verbal and nonverbal comm
and confidences in English conversation by talk and repeat English sentences in several times. Especially, ‘Audition English’ can make up for the weak points that are related to ‘risk-taking’. According to the book ‘Risk-taking’ is an important characteristic of successful learning of a second language. Therefore, learners have to be able to gamble a bit, to be willing to try out hun
The younger children is exposed to a richer second language environment
Being more comfortable using second language
The older children had to deal with many other subjects.
Being more comfortable using mother tongue
Younger child
Think with English
Speak with English
Older child
Think with First language
Speak with English
and research by scholars and experts on SLA and feedback, it is revealed that there are many methods of feedback and advantages for each respective method. For our study, our group decided to focus on the comparison among certain feedback methods to come to a potential conclusion on which can be the most effective for L2 learners. The questions which this paper seeks to answer are as follows: Doe