Second Language Acquisition

[Historical Overview of SLA]

Based on the choices below, choose the correct statement regarding the topic above.

• Begin analysing child language since 21st century

• Begin analysing child language since the

  Ist half of 20th century.

• Begin analyzing child language since the 2nd half of 20th century.

• Begin analysing child language since the 2nd early of 20th century

Why B.F. Skinner is called environmentalist?

• He emphasized that children acquire the second language by observing and listening to the people in their surroundings.

• He emphasized that children learn the second language at school.

• He stated that children has an innate ability to acquire the second language.

• He stated that children acquired perfect grammatical knowledge by imitating people from their surrounding

Why Noam Chomsky is called Nativists?

• Children are born with a language learning tool that he called a language development device.

• He believed that children learn new skills through operant conditioning, classical conditioning, or observation.

• According to Chomsky, the ability to learn languages is an innate skill.

• Children must have the motivation to learn a language.

Based on the statement above, which one of the concepts below that suits the statement.

• Nature

• Nurture

Based on the statement above, which one of the concepts below that suits the statement.

• Nature

• Nurture

Ali and his family moved to Oman at the age of 4 years old. He stayed there until he was 9 years old. At home, he spoke Malay with his family but he spoke Arabic with everyone else including friends and teacher. Ali and his family moved back to Malaysia when he was 10 years old. The Arabic Language is not spoken in the community here.

Choose the correct explanation to the situation above.

• Ali acquired the second language.

• Ali acquired the foreign language.

• Ali acquired the first language.

• Ali acquired both second and foreign language.

If we are learning the second language (English) at school, is it possible that we acquired that language subconsciously by watching English movies? Tick the correct statement.

Choose the correct explanation to the situation above.

• We are learning the language by acquisition.

• We are learning the language formally as learning cannot be turned into acquisition.

• The process of acquiring the language involved nurturing.

• The process of acquiring the language is natural.

What do you understand about language transfer?

• Language transfer occurs when a bilingual speaker mixed both first and second language in a conversation.

• The majority of language transfer arises when a bilingual speaker thinks in the second language while speaking in the first language.

• Language transfer is the application of linguistic features from one language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker.

• When a bilingual speaker confused the rules and conventions of their first and second languages, language transfer occurred.

Which of these statements best describe contrastive analysis?

• It contrasts two different languages.

• It emphasizes on learning L2 languages.

• It examines the learners' L1 and L2 skills.

• It studies how linguistic patterns are similar and different.

What are the limitations of language learning as opposed to language acquisition?

• Learning is limited to the formal classroom setting while language acquisition did not limit their learners in learning.

• The majority of language learners lack fluency because they are taught linguistics rules rather than how to have a conversation.

• Language learning is informal.

• Language learning focus on self-study without any teachers or tutors.