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 secondlanguage learners”
Korean Wes
Literacy Ability (reading, writing) Grammar skill High Low
Communication skills
(listening, speaking) Low High
language use in real life of students. Thus, functional expressions include such that will train students to communicate their meanings and respond in L2. For this purpose, functional lessons focus on listening and speaking skills—oral communication. In lessons 1 and 2, students will be engaged in comprehension activities as well as communicative interaction with fellow students in order to
The younger children is exposed to a richer secondlanguage environment
Being more comfortable using secondlanguage
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
language activities. Students do not have to produce language. Mistakes are unimportant and easily (and painlessly) corrected by the teacher. Language is remembered easily and long-term.
3. DESIGN
1) Objectives
The objectives of Total Physical Response are to teach oral proficiency at a beginning level. And then ultimate aim is to use comprehension as a means to speaking.
of native speakers in the past.
After the analysis of survey, we found a surprising and interesting result. It is that some British people know more American slangs than British slangs. Throughout the process of research, we found that american slangs are more common in the internet and of much in use for international communication of English. British words are just in their boundary and most