Instrumental: To manipulate the environment, to cause certain events to happen, including communicative acts that have a specific perlocutionary forcethey bring about a particular condition. It may be metaphorically described as a mental spotlight, alerting ones sensors to a selected (and limited) number of perceptions. L: [to another student] What means this word? If there is an abundance of language to master, I just try to take things one step at a time. (1998). To what extent has learning an L2 involved developing a new selfidentity? Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [two-year-old] Headlights . Rubin and Thompson (1982) later summarized such characteristics, paraphrased and summarized here. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. Ausubel, D. (1968). Differences between the way males and females speak have been noted for some time now (Lakoff, 1975; Nilsen et al., 1977; Holmes, 1989, 1991; Tannen, 1990, 1996; Sunderland, 2000; Davis & Skilton-Sylvester, 2004; McKay, 2005). (1965). How can teachers help students to build self-efficacy, even in small steps? SUGGESTED READINGS Birdsong, D. (2009). In E. Hinkel (Ed. Dominance, power relationships across two cultures 2. Three misconceptions about age and L2 learning. Richards, J. Comments on Dwight Atkinsons TESOL and culture: Another reader reacts. We picture other cultures (or other regions) in an oversimplified manner, lumping cultural differences into exaggerated categories, and then view every person in a culture as possessing the same traits. Lantolf, J. . . ), The handbook of second language acquisition (pp. Inhibition All human beings, in their understanding of themselves, build sets of defenses to protect the ego. Warden, C., & Lin, H. (2000). 125144). What activities or pair work or games could be used? The research of the previous six decades has come full circle to encompass what is now considered to be the heart of SLA: the intertwining and interdependence of self, identity, social interaction, and language acquisition. MacIntyre, P., & Gardner, R. (1988). (1998). Colleagues in the same occupation or profession will use certain jargon to communicate with each other, sometimes to the exclusion of outsiders. Cognitive structure and the facilitation of meaningful verbal learning. But mistakes can be viewed as threats to ones ego. In D. Atkinson (Ed. (Eds.). What is the role of the frequency of hearing and producing items in the acquisition of language? Wardhaugh noted, however, that a weak version of the CAH might be more reasonable to adopt: a recognition of the significance of interference across languages, but a concession that linguistic difficulties may be more fruitfully pinpointed after the fact. Culture shock may be experienced by feelings of estrangement, anger, hostility, indecision, frustration, unhappiness, sadness, loneliness, homesickness, and even physical illness. In K. Croft (Ed. Brown, R., & Hanlon, C. (1970). 4. ), Instructional design theories and models: An overview of their current status. In M. Clarke & J. Handscombe (Eds. Affective factors and the problem of age in second language acquisition. In H. Seliger & M. Long (Eds. It is interesting to note that comparisons of child and adult second language acquisition almost always refer, in the case of children, to natural untutored learning, and for adults, to the classroom learning of a second language. ), The handbook of second language acquisition (pp. Adults have developed even greater concentration and so have greater ability for rote learning, but they usually use rote learning only for short-term memory. Imai, Y. This line of thinking, also referred to as chaos-complexity theory as well as dynamic systems theory, has now spread to many of the so-called soft sciences, including linguistics and SLA. In one widely publicized case, Curtiss (1977) wrote about Genie, a thirteen-year-old girl who had been socially isolated and abused all her life until she was discovered by the authorities, and who was then faced with the task of acquiring a first language. Within countries, stereotypes are the source of both amusement and disdain: New Yorkers are in your face, brusque, and drink Manischewitz wine. I was reflective enough to be patient with miscommunications and my inability to communicate well, yet impulsive to the extent that I needed to insist on some action as soon as possible. Language, 35, 2658. All cultures throughout the history of humankind have relied on kinesics for conveying important messages. Improving high school English language learners second language listening through strategy instruction. (1982). Foreign Language Annals, 39, 276295. The developmental acquisition of basic colour terms. . (2004).
Armstrong, T. (1994). Seller Inventory # newport0133041948, Book Description Soft cover. Revealing your identity; reading anothers identity (social status, professionalism, open-mindedness) 5. 131). How does language embody and express such dimensions? New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. What are the components of your definition? Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 24, 303319. Selective attention to keywords and advance organizers, inferring from context, prediction, using a worksheet, and taking notes were shown to be teachable (Rost & Ross, 1991; Ozeki, 2000; Carrier, 2003; Vandergrift, 2003). What happens after puberty to the magic little black box (the Language Acquisition Device or LAD)?
We would be circumventing the most fundamental side of human behavioras educational psychologist Ernest Hilgard put it: Purely cognitive theories of learning will be rejected unless a role is assigned to affectivity (1963, p. 267). Milon, J. Jewelry also conveys certain messages. 97113). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. What were some specific linguistic or psychological manifestations of such stages? Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Selective attention and transfer phenomena in SLA: Contingency, cue, salience, interference, overshadowing, blocking, and perceptual learning. Conceptual impulsivity and inductive reasoning.
New York: Routledge. Classroom experience then might stir you to further refinement. Other evidence shows right hemisphere lesions to have less impact on language functioning, but Millar and Whitaker (1983) challenged the notion of clear hemispheric divisions in the case of linguistic ability. We discovered that language was not effectively acquired through a process of habit formation and over-learning, that errors were not necessarily to be avoided at all costs, and that structural linguistics did not dictate a course syllabus. Atkinson, D. (2011a). Lost in translation: A life in a new language. So, despite all the good intentions, Ethan and his brother and long-suffering parents remain the proud owners of a very entertaining and very loud nontalking mynah! The drive in children to conform to those around them is strong, and usually one that takes on huge significance in the teens. Greek historian Herodotus noted that crocodiles, for example, open their mouths to allow birds to pluck CHAPTER 10 Sorting through Perspectives on SLA 299 leeches out, thus providing nutrition for the birds and natural dentistry for the crocs! (2011). Theories in second language acquisition. Ancient Greek philosophers reminded their audiences of the importance of body, mind, and soul in their inquiry. Universal grammar and language learnability. A great deal of attention has been given to the variation CHAPTER 9 Interlanguage 247 that learners manifest in their interlanguage development (N. Ellis, 1987, 2007a; Tarone, 1988; James, 1990; Bayley & Preston, 1996; Romaine, 2003; Adamson, 2008). Perceptual salience (how easy it is to see or hear a given structure) 2. (1970). . 4153). (2009). ), The development of language and language researchers: Essays in honor of Roger Brown. For example, if they saw Figure 7.1 with the umbrella label, they would reproduce the drawing more like Figure 7.2, but if they saw the mushroom label, the reproductions tended to look like Figure 7.3. umbrella Figure 7.2 Umbrella mushroom Figure 7.3 Mushroom 182 CHAPTER 7 Language, Culture, and Identity Lexical items may reflect something about the intersection of culture and cognition. And, the almost exclusive reliance on translation often resulted in linguistic mysteries that could have been avoided. These two articles (in the same volume) contain a wealth of information on issues and controversies in FFI, an update on what SLA research has found, and extensive bibliographies. Sparrow, L. (2000). What color mop . Tips for teaching culture: Practical approaches to intercultural communication. Implicit in the comments of the preceding section is the assumption that the emergence of what we commonly call foreign accent is of some importance in our arguments about age and acquisition. (2011). Abraham, R. (1985). 72 CHAPTER 3 Age and Acquisition C LASSROOM C ONNECTIONS To what extent have you found that learning an L2 has involved thought acquisition as well? Level 2Underdifferentiation. The degree of situational self-esteem a person has may vary depending upon the situation in question. Global errors impede communication; they are incomprehensible to the hearer (or reader). ), Individual differences and universals in language learning aptitude. Teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling a person to learn, and setting the conditions for learning. Another option being used by language teachers is to stimulate strategy awareness and practice in their students with the use of short, simple manuals written for students, designed to raise their awareness, and to offer multiple strategic options (Ellis & Sinclair, 1989; Brown, 1991, 1989, 2002; Rubin & Thompson, 1994; Murphey, 2006). Im sort of American now, at the age of 41, but for years since my early college days I felt culturally homeless. Beware of overgeneralization. operates in a speech community sociolinguistics; sociocultural analysis; or culture pragmatics; dialectology; bilingualism 7. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 15, 125150. Toward principled eclecticism in language teaching: The two-dimensional model and the centering principle. A tramp abroad. It is the challenge of teachers to blend the best of science with the best of artful intuition to help learners discover those pathways. Childrens comprehension of relativized English sentences. Walsh and Dillers conclusions have been supported in other studies (Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson, 2003; Singleton & Ryan, 2004). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Child Development, 42, 19231936. Using language corpora in initial teacher education: Pedagogic issues and practical applications. 6. Neuropsychology of second language acquisition. The ALM rejected its classical predecessor, the Grammar Translation Method, by diminishing if not obliterating the need for metacognitive focus on the forms of language. The neurobiology of learning: Perspectives from second language acquisition. 322 BIBLIOGRAPHY Cohen, A., & Macaro, E. Working Papers on Bilingualism, 6, 92102. London: Longman. If you had to classify your approach to learning a foreign language, would it be more Skinnerian, Ausubelian, or Rogersian? The relationship of field dependent-independent cognitive styles to foreign language achievement. However, a respectable stockpile of research (see Schinke-Llano, 1989; Reynolds, 1991) shows a considerable cognitive benefit of early childhood bilingualism, supporting Lamberts (1972) contention that bilingual children are more facile at concept formation and have greater mental flexibility. Brown, H. D. (1980). Of significance in this genre of research is the renewed interest in the performance level of language. Kachru, Y. Can we attribute SLA success to, lets say, simply a matter of comprehensible input, or exposure to meaningful communicative contexts? Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Grammatical theory: Interfaces and L2 knowledge. Lets take a look at this hidden dimension (Hall, 1966) of language. Project management and text composition: Kelly Ricci/Aptara, Inc. The fruit of our performance (output) is conditioned by the climate of contextual variables. Ortega, L. (2011). ), Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Did your teacher specifically teach you CALP language to make classroom discourse more communicative? In the case of meaningfully learned material, retention is influenced primarily by the properties of relevant and cumulatively established ideational systems in cognitive structure with which the learning task interacts (Ausubel, 1968, p. 108). Describe those in terms of your actual L2 learning experiences. ), Investigating second language acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. Levine, G. (2003). Effects of trait emotional intelligence and sociobiographical variables on communicative anxiety and foreign language anxiety among adult multilinguals: A review and empirical investigation. Weasel words tend to glorify very ordinary products into those that are unsurpassed, ultimate, and the right choice. Food that has been sapped of most of its nutrients by the manufacturing process are now enriched and fortified. And isnt it odd that in a grocery store there are no small or even medium eggs, only large (which now seem sort of average), extra large, and maybe jumbo? In the last part of the twentieth century, as studies in L1 and L2 acquisition continued to probe the place of language in human development, it became increasingly obvious that language is interconnected with cognitive concepts such as perception, memory, categorization, meaning, and attention (Robinson& Ellis, 2008). Ask students to share examples of these parameters in their own past experiences in L2 classrooms (or in any other classroom). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Davies, A. Take the Styles Awareness Checklist (Figure 5.1, p. 134). . Consider these possibilities: (1) Intuition is not developed in a vacuum. (1994). Mercifully, my English is still okay! 4. Assign to each small group a typically extrinsically motivating activity (e.g., a multiple-choice final exam, filling in a cloze passage, a dictation exercise, a repetition drill). Byrne, D. Lets look briefly at the criticisms. (D) Select several languages with which students in the class are familiar, and ask them to volunteer phonological features of those languages that are most salient in foreign-accented English. Washington, DC: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Student personality and success in an English language program. Updated activities and discussion questions for practicing instrctuctors and teachers in training. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Dulay and Burt (1974a) found intralingual strategies, not interference errors from the first language, among Spanish-speaking children learning English. The child must hold the secret to learning a language! ), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning: Volume II (pp. Uptake is a general term that can have a number of manifestations, as in the example below, in which the learners uptake confirmed comprehension, but production was still not repaired. Linguistic application: Stringing several sounds or words together to attempt to communicate meaning. In J. Carroll (Ed. 3. White, L. (1990). Try it out, do some research on it, teach with it, talk about it with colleagues. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 21, 7789. Samoan: Please take it. Introduction to cross cultural communication. Eventually students, one by one, presumably felt comfortable enough to venture verbal responses to questions, then to ask questions themselves, and the process continued. But they were far more interested in a more ultimate question: why? A comprehensive review of current theories and models of SLA from a diverse number of psychological perspectives, including applications of Dynamic Systems Theory and Individual Differences research. In E. Hinkel (Ed. The relationship between self-esteem and the oral production of a second language. Modern Language Journal, 89, 1936. ), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning (pp. In a study of adult native speakers of Hungarian learning English, he found that certain adults, those with high general verbal ability, were able to use explicit learning mechanisms to bypass the increasingly inefficient implicit mechanisms. Traditional theories of SLA assumed that learners proceed from parts (words, structures) to wholes (sentences in discourse). And he showed that our traditional definitions of intelligence are culture-bound. In certain L2 contexts, a reorientation of thinking, feeling, and communication may be necessary. Goofing: An indicator of childrens second language learning strategies. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. Eyes (and surrounding anatomyeyelids, eyebrows) signal interest, boredom, surprise, empathy, hostility, attraction, true love, understanding, misunderstanding, and other messages. A poetics of second language acquisition. TESOL Quarterly, 37, 615644. . Stevick (1976b) cautioned that learners can feel alienation in the process of learning an L2alienation from people in their home culture, from the target culture, and from themselves. In individualist cultures, personal needs take precedence over those of others, while members of a collectivist culture sacrifice personal wishes in order to satisfy the group. Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning. There are better ways of proceeding (pp. in the classroom that it is difficult to know where to begin. In C. Doughty & M. Long (Eds. (2011). How have you observed these ideas in action in your own language learning (or teaching) experience? Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. Imagine some telegraphic utterances in a foreign language you have learned. Language Learning, 35, 2146. Learning language under tension: New directions from a qualitative study. Teachers can help students to notice their linguistic output in class, and slowly convert systematic errors into appropriate forms. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. She chirped very loudly, but never anything that could pass as human speech. Towards a theory of language learning ability. . Doughty, C. (1991). It is by definition covert, but see the next category for a distinction between global and local errors. Do you resist some of the stereotypes of your culture? 139158). Rodrguez and Abreu (2003) looked at the stability of anxiety across different foreign languages. Fear of negative social evaluation, arising from a learners need to make apositive social impression on others 3. In sentence (1), lacking a word for the particular grammatical structure that was planned, the learner creatively used what he thought was an appropriate verb; however, it didnt quite ring true in this sentence. What time of day was this? Sasaki, M. (1993a). Modern Language Journal, 79, 9099. Krashen, S., Seliger, H., & Hartnett, D. (1974). With data banks boasting hundreds of millions of words (Conrad, 2005, p. 394), our capacity to analyze language as it is actually used, and not as it may occur (e.g., in language textbooks that are sometimes guilty of manufacturing linguistic examples to illustrate a form), is greatly enhanced. Emphasizing the supremacy of conditioning paradigms, the crucial role of rewards and punishments, and the scientific 80 CHAPTER 4 Human Learning nature of experimental evidence, behaviorism went virtually unchallenged until the middle of the twentieth century. Through class discussion, make a large composite list on the board. Some remain anonymous, while a special thank you goes to Magdalena Madany and Melody Chen, whose stories appear in Chapters 5 and 6. Illustrate with examples from your L2 learning. New York: Cambridge University Press. Are you satisfied with your progress in acquiring some of the discourse features, conversation rules, and pragmatic conventions of your foreign language? 3. Multilingualism: A critical perspective.
Oratorical: Language conventions used in public speaking before a large audience. Language Learning, 29, 125. In foreign language education, Christison (1999, 2005) and others have been successfully applying the concept of multiple intelligences to teaching English as a second or foreign language by showing how each intelligence relates to certain demands in the classroom.
At a more momentary, or situational level, state anxiety is experienced in relation to some particular event or act. New York: Wiley. ), Language and communication (pp. 419435). However, a learner who is intolerant of ambiguity and employs analytical, linear thinking can obviously benefit from an awareness of those proclivities and from taking appropriate strategic action. For cognitive psychologists, going beyond merely descriptive adequacy to explanatory power took on the utmost importance. A good share of face-to-face communication with people, because of its social back-and-forth, is contextembedded, while school-oriented language tends to be more context reduced. 6993). 5. More interesting is the question of when lateralization takes place, and whether or not that lateralization process affects language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 21, 341382. Of course, everyone thought, inborn genetic predispositions answered so many questions. A compilation of a variety of characteristics of left-brain (LB) and right-brain (RB) characteristics is listed in Table 5.1 (Edwards, 1979; Torrance, 1980; Joseph, 2012). For example, when students are playing a guessing game, performing a skit, or singing songs, the teacher can remind them that they are practicing strategies for lowering inhibitions. Worse, stereotypes have a way of potentially devaluing people from other cultures. Cognitive psychology provides a strong theoretical basis for the rejection of conditioning models of practice and repetition in language teaching. Garca Mayo, M. (2007). ), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning: Volume II (pp. The correct one-to-one word order correspondence, personal pronoun, preposition, and cognate January have all been positively transferred from French to English!
(1966). 286 CHAPTER 10 Sorting through Perspectives on SLA C LASSROOM C ONNECTIONS Consider a few of Elliss factors: input, implicit learning, and output. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. In contrast, Moyers (1999) study with native English-speaking graduate students of German found that the subjects were not judged to be native speakers. From pivot grammar to three- and four-word utterances, and to full sentences of almost indeterminate length, children exhibit a remarkable ability to infer the phonological, structural, lexical, and semantic systems of language. Is the acquisition of an authentic native accent a factor of age? Elliott, A. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. Brown, A., & Gullberg, M. (2008). (1956). The inflection of go is perceived as less salient, so learners are likely to attribute less importance to such word inflections. Fushino, K. (2010). Cultural globalization and language education. Why is that? How might neurological development affect second language success? We will return to this concept later in the chapter. Stages of Learner Language Development You will recall that children acquiring their L1 proceed through a number of identifiable stages. Are we there yet? Sociolinguistics and second language learning. Have them suggest some examples of activities in the language classroom that would be derived from their assigned perspective. If so, how? Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd. Pike, K. (1967). Le suicide. 473501). Transfer usually refers to the carryover of previous performance or knowledge to subsequent learning. .
The new handbook of second language acquisition. Replacing quantitative research methodology with alternative tools of measurement poses a challenge (pp. (Ed.). (1982). Piaget stressed the importance of individual cognitive development as a relatively solitary act. On defining the phoneme. But slowly their popularity waned, even in the absence of alternative measures of language aptitude (Parry & Child, 1990; Skehan, 1998). Slavoff and Johnson (1995) found that younger children (ages seven to nine) did not have a particular advantage in rate of learning over older (ten- to twelve-year-old) children.
TESOL Quarterly, 35, 307322. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. TESOL Quarterly, 44, 700724. Weltens, B. ), Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics. 3 Age and Acquisition 77 nevertheless has an almost perfect accent. Comparison of language development in native children and foreign adults. Williams, 2009). Ask each group to share experiences with form-focused instruction (FFI). A simple dictionary definition of demotivation refers to the losing of interest that once was present. Bandura, A. Age and Acquisition One of the key issues in L2 research and teaching is a cluster of questions about differences between children and adults. The triarchic mind: A new theory of human intelligence. Here, you are strongly encouraged to commit yourself to a process of weekly journal entries that chronicle a previous or concurrent L2 learning experience. In N. Pitchford & C. Biggam (Eds. Holme, R. (2012). Right hemisphere participation in second language acquisition. Topics include: anxiety, ego boundaries, neurobiology, self-esteem. Syntactic category (grammatical characteristics of forms) 5. Young children are generally not aware that they are acquiring a language, nor are they aware of societal values and attitudes placed on one language or another. Much of the evidence in communicative L2 learning 98 CHAPTER 4 Human Learning points to the overall superiority of an inductive approach; however, in the case of form-focused instruction (see Chapter 9), learners might reap the benefit of the positive effects of having errors called to their attention. Next, he might want to devise methods of training. The essentials of a communicative curriculum in language teaching. ), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning: Volume II (pp. Some of her subjects were fast and inaccurate. Identifying Types of Strategy Other pedagogically useful studies separate strategies for acquiring the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In terms of the previously discussed meaningful learning, items are subsumed (generalized) under higher-order categories for meaningful retention. ), Beyond basics: Issues and research in TESOL. Set personal goals. And finally, that language learning involves social interaction in a meaningful context? Foreign language classroom anxiety. Scollon, R. (2004). Changing winds and shifting sands. (A) In small groups, ask students to share their own opinion, from a cultural perspective, about the importance of learner autonomy as an avenue to success in learning a foreign language. Other . Lera Boroditsky (2011, p. 64) offered an even more vivid description of language and thought among the Kuuk Thaayorre, an Aboriginal community in Australia: Instead of words like right, left, forward, and back, which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction termsnorth, south, east, and westto define space. Hold the floor? The most useful implication of Vigil and Ollers model for a theory of error treatment is that cognitive feedback must be optimal in order to be effective. Contrary to prevailing stereotypes, introverts can have an inner strength of character, be more attentive to thoughts and concepts, and be energized by concentration on the inner world (Wakamoto, 2009, p. 18). 14 CHAPTER 1 Language, Learning, and Teaching C LASSROOM C ONNECTIONS In your foreign language learning (or teaching), what sociocultural dimensions of the language did you learn? 
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