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WorksheetsRole of first language and interlanguage
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?
Learners contrast their L1 and their L2 in order to determine what language they would like to study
All learners learn contrastively to what we expect them to learn
All L2 errors can be predicted by identifying differences between the target language and the learners first language
Learners analyze and contrast their language according to situation.
Who developed the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis, and when?
Stephen Krashen, 2002
Robert Lado, 1957
Jean Piaget, 1946
Roar Ravem, 1968
What is an assumption of language distance?
Languages that developed with thousands of miles between them are totally separate.
You have to travel a long way to hear another language.
Languages that are similar can be hard to learn.
The closer in similarity two languages are, the easier it will be to learn the L2.
What is an example of a more marked sentence?
The cow went to the barn.
Who are you going to the prom with?
How old is Jim?
With whom are you going to the prom?
Who is associated with prototypically?
Rod Ellis
Eric Kellerman
Richard Schmidt
Sigmund Freud
What is some examples of transfer errors?
Pie (Spanish) transfered to pie (English) (false cognates)
Japanese use of the plural -s
Article usage in French and English
Incorrect use of "ser" and "estar" by an English-speaking person
How does order of acquisition affect language transfer?
It has no effect.
If there is no L1 equivalent of a morpheme in the target language, the natural order of learning and acquisition is disturbed.
Transfer of language occurs in a certain order.
A learner transfers a language by acquiring the target language.
What is the Processability Theory?
People process language according to how smart they are.
People process language according to extrinsic or intrinsic motivators.
Learners are easily processed.
Learners have to create language-specific routines in stages, and gradually extend their grammatical memory toe enable them to handle increasingly complex grammatical information.
What is the "somewhere" in Transfer-to-Somewhere?
There is somewhere (the target language) that is similar to the L1, and language transfer can take place.
You have to be somewhere else to learn an L2.
There is nothing similar between the L1 and the L2.
A language transfers somewhere where other people understand it.
How do you think age and language aptitude affect L1 transfer?
