The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis

Language acquisition refers to the process of:

• understanding the structure and rules of the language

• receiving information about the language

• natural assimilation, involving intuition and subconscious learning

• transforming information into knowledge through intellectual effort and storing it through memorization

Certified teachers with knowledge about the language and its literature but able to communicate in English only with poor pronunciation, limited vocabulary and lacking awareness of the target culture.

• Language Learning

• Language Acquisition

Which one of the scholar does support language acquisition and learning hypothesis?

• Brown (2000)

• Gregg (1984)

• Vygotsky (1978)

• MCLaughlin (1987)

Brown (2000) believed that Krashen's theory of SLA is oversimplified and the claims he made are:

• good

• overstated

Identify and analyse the characteristics of your students is:

• to take initiative for seeking opportunity for learning

• to reflect on their reasons for learning a second language

• to suit the special requirements of the second language learners

Hong (2008 proposed 6 teaching strategies in second language acquisition. Strategy 4 is :

• signing classroom contracts to build expectations toward independence

• setting goals for the language learners to lead to increased motivation

• build up second language learner motivation including value, self-efficacy and attributions

Which situation best describes the learning acquisition?

• At the school, the children are taught on a system of grammatical rules. They are conjoining the sentences, forming relative clauses and inflecting verbs and nouns

• No one teaches children the rules of the grammar. They are quickly and effortlessly extract the intricate system of rules from the language you heard around and thereby reinvent the grammar of the surroundings.

Krashen concludes that language acquisition is more efficient than language learning for attaining functional skills in a foreign language not only in childhood.

• True

• False

• Not stated

Acquisition is a...

• subconscious process

• conscious process

Which one of the scholar does support language and learning hypothesis?

• Brown (2000)

• Gregg (1984)

• Vygotsky (1978)