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L1 Acquisition
L1 Acquisition
One = 1
Two = 2
One and two = 3
Dog = 4
Dog and one = 5
Dog and two = 6
Dog and one and two = 7
Dog dog = 8
Dog dog and one = 9
and so on.
First language (mother tongue, native language, L1)
Additional language
Second language (L2)
Foreign language (Lf)
SLA
SA A D SD
17. Ss can learn both language and academic content (for example,
science and history) simulataneously in classes where the subject
matter is taught in their second language.
18. Classrooms are good places to learn about language but not for
learning how to use language.
Similarity in first language acquisition
When
Why
What
How
Who
Questions:
Cookie? Mommy book?
Where’s daddy? What’s that?
-Behaviourism
psychological theory of learning, influential in the 1940s and
1950s
language learning is the result of imitation, practice,
feedback on success and language behaviour
Mother: I love you to pieces.
-Universal Grammar
The language children are exposed to does not contain examples of all the
linguistic rules and patterns which they eventually know
Limited correction
Children learn language from their language experiences – there is no other way.
Simultaneous bilinguals
Sequential bilinguals
Code switching
BICS
CALP