Learn 2 Teach English: What is Language? (pgs. 1-13)

When children acquire two languages right from the start

• instantaneous bilingualism

• simultaneous bilingualism

• consecutive bilingualism

• bilingualism

Children who learn another language AFTER they develop competence in their firsts language (L1) and manage to develop high fluency in their second language (L2)

• simultaneous bilinguals

• consecutive bilinguals

Refers to when a learner WANTS to know language to become part of the target language community.

• integrative motivation

• instrumental motivation

Refers to when the learner needs the language for PROFESSIONAL communciation

• integrative motivation

• instrumental motivation

learners draw from language systems they already known when using a new language refers to

• Common Underlying Profiency

• Core Underlying Profiency

• Common Utilization Proficiency

• Current Underlying Proficiency

Language can be described as systematic means of communicating by use of (a)   or conventional symbols.

Discourse structure refers to

• sounds

• sentence formataion

• way language is arranged

• appropriate language use

Pragmatics refers to

• sounds

• sentence formataion

• way language is arranged

• appropriate language use

Phonology refers to

• sounds

• sentence formataion

• way language is arranged

• appropriate language use

Morphology refers to

• sounds

• sentence formataion

• way words are formed

• appropriate language use