Language Learning Key Concepts
Nature of Language
Acquisition versus learning
Language learner attributes
Language learning process
Language as both form and substance
Language as an acitvity
Language as a form
Language as a system of arbitrary vocal symbols
Language as a substance
Language as structural view, communicative view and interactional view
language is composed of items that one can see and hear, feel and think about
language classifies speech by form and not by meaning
language is likely to be able to express certain things and incapable of others
considered as either a pursuit of the mind or the brain
anguage will work effectively in performing its functions if its symbols are appropriately perceived by both the speaker and the listener/receiver of the message
Young children and home language
Bilingualism and its Impact on Cognitive Development
Brain development and language
English Language Learners (ELL) in the Mainstream Classroom
scaffolding method
Children need interaction with others in order to acquire and learn how language works from
those interactions
If a child hasn’t mastered their first
language they will struggle mastering a second language
willing to make mistakes
enjoy grammar
willing and accurate guessers
make their own opportunities, and find strategies for getting
practice in using the language inside and outside the classroom
motivated to learn and they believe that they are capable of
learning.
Acquisition
Learning
children acquire their first language
integral part of the unity of all language
based on the neuro-psychological processes
conscious process
product of either formal learning
situation or a self-study programme
learning English as a second language