Author:
Evaluation:
Published: 12.01.2016.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 1.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 2.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 3.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 4.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 5.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 6.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 7.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 8.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 9.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 10.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 11.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 12.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 13.
  • Presentations 'Language Acquisition', 14.
Extract

First Language acquisition
Skinner
Acquisition through experience
Language shaped by re-enforcement
Chomsky
Language as innate biological capacity
"Language acquisition device"
Innate mechanism works = child speaks

Second Language acquisition
Existing first language
Learning of a second culture
New linguistic systems

Main Approaches: Nativism
N.Chomsky
Innate competence of language
Universal Grammar – principles, basic properties and differences of languages
Activate UG – speak a language (from the UG perspective)

…

Author's comment
Atlants