1923)
Focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures
Very personal, egoistic nature of SLA
Learners take on a new identity with their newly acquired competence
→ SLA involves some degree of identity conflict
Guiora et al. (1972):
a direct relationship between inhibition
and pronunciation ability in SL
(physical/mental effect of the alcohol?)
→ Because it determine language development & capacity after childhood
→ If language acquisition does not occur by childhood, some aspects of language can be learnt but full mastery cannot be achieved
Case 1. Wolf girls in India
Case 2. The girl reported in 1970
Children’s innate capacities of language
→ Vocabularies, Grammar structure
Distinguishing pronunciations
pronunciation. However, when they are learning a foreign language, all of those natural aids disappeared. And words become really foreign and abstract after they leave classes. And even worse, their teacher might have a bad accent or even wrong pronunciation. Some may adduce children in Luxembourg as evidence, but the point is that almost all parents in that place are trilingual!
Learning a forei
phases also make choices different. Suppose I was learning a foreign language. If I was practicing my basic pronunciation, Id better learn by myself. For an adult learner, a tape recorder is fairly adequate. But if I were to practice my spoken skills, to study alone would be a poor choice. I should look for or create an opportunity to learn with a group, therefore learn more effectively.
pronunciation,
recognition of speech symbols as graphic signs on the printed
page, and ability to reproduce these symbols in writing
Long-range Objectives
Must be language as the native speaker uses it
There must be some knowledge of a second language as it is
possessed by a true bilingualist
Oral proficiency, Oral fluency
Mike: What does your mother do, Jane?
Jane: She