THE ACQUISITION–LEARNING DISTINCTION
*AMBATO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
MEMBERS:CHANGO SOLEDAD
GUAYGUA LEONARDORODRÍGUEZ TANIA
VILLAFUERTE KARLA
*THE ACQUISITION-LEARNING
DISTINCTION
*It is a hypotheses that says that:
*Adults have two distinct and independent ways of developing competence in a second language.
*The first way is language acquisition.
*The second way is by learning the language.
* LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
*It is a process similar to the way children develop ability in their first language.
*It is is a subconscious process
*The result of language acquisition, acquired competence, is also subconscious.
*It is also known as implicit learning, informal learning, and natural learning.
*2. LANGUAGE LEARNING• Conscious knowledge of a second
language.
• Knowing the rules.
• Being aware of the rules
• Being able to talk about the rules.
• Exolicit learning
• KNOWING ABOUT A LANGUAGE
* LANGUAGE LEARNINGAcquisition is a very powerful
process in the adult
*Not just children acquire*Adults can only learn
*The acquisition-learning hypothesis claims, however, that adults also acquire.
*adults also acquire, that the ability to "pick-up" languages does not disappear at puberty.
*can access the same natural "language acquisition device" that children use
It doesn’t influence acquisition to any great extent.
As conclusion, parents attend more the truth value what the child is saying rather than to the form.
* Her curl my hair "was approved, because the mother was, in fact, curling Eve's hair.
Walt Disney comes on Tuesday was corrected, despite its syntactic correctness, since Walt Disney actually came on television on Wednesday.
* The acquisition-learning distinction may not be
unique to second language acquisition
*It seems to be "truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents
School:for most people, The who/whom distinction)and similar distinctions have been made in other domains