1. Second Language Acquisition Video series with Dr. Frank Tuzi

2. What is SLA? Second Language Acquisition
L2 (Second Language – living it)
TL (Target Language)
FL (Foreign Language – not living it)
Library Language – just learning to investigate topics in that language
Auxiliary Language – learned only for a specific purpose (business needs)

3. To ponder in SLA: WHAT does the learner learn?
Just language? Other understandings?
HOW does the learner learn?
Environmental?
Formal instruction?
Why are some learners more successful than others?
Better strategies?
More motivated?

4. The field of SLA study involves:
Linguistics
Psychology – workings of brain
Sociolinguists – interactions with others
Theories of SLA integrate these components

5. Multilingual speakers:
Knowledge is different (enhanced)
Linguistic awareness is higher
Cognitive processes are better understood

6. Language Learning (L1/LL):
The nature of L1 learning is inherent
Children learn with interaction and stimulus
Intelligence and the ability to learn L1 are not directly related
The rate of L1 learning varies. It does correlate to the critical period.
LL requires INPUT but teaching L1 is not necessary for oral communication.

8. Skinner
Chomsky
Krashen

12. What the researcher can investigate:
Linguistic perspectives of language learning
Psychological perspectives of language learning
Social perspective of LL
Any combination of the above

13. SL Learning Theories What makes a good theory?
How does theory fit together with actual teaching of SL?

14. What makes a good SLA theory?

15. Views of the nature of language:
Language is complex and multilevel
Phonology - sounds
Morphology - endings
Semantics - meaning
Lexis – vocabulary/words
Pragmatics – social context
Competence vs Performance
Nature vs Nurture

16. The Language Learning Process

17. Input and Interaction in SLA

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23. Input and Interaction in SLA Input and Interaction in SLA

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26. Input and Interaction in SLA Input and Interaction in SLA

27. Stephen Krashen We all acquire language the same.
Symbolic representation-visuals work
We acquire language when we understand messages – this is comprehensible input in a low anxiety environment.
Anything that makes language comprehensible (pictures, knowledge, background) helps.

28. Stephen Krashen Speaking ability emerges gradually.
L2 develops in a very similar way as L1
listening/input happens first
silent period is normal
order: words, phrases, sentences
What counts in speaking is the input you get from others’ responses.
Affective filter: motivation, self-esteem, anxiety (lower is better) affect learning.