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Have you ever wondered how you learned to speak your first language so well and without any effort? Why is it often so much more difficult to become just as competent in another language? What are the factors that affect how we learn? How can we optimize those factors in the language classroom?
This course reviews current second language acquisition (SLA) research and theories, and the controversies they spark. The course begins with an overview of first language acquisition processes and theories and proceeds to explore how they are related to, but different from those of SLA. The developmental sequences of first language learning by children as viewed from the behaviorist, innatist, and interactionist/developmental perspectives are covered. The applications of these theories to SLA are also examined, as well as the factors that affect SLA, but that are not significant to first language acquisition, such as individual learner characteristics and the context in which language learning occurs. The impact of these theoretical paradigms on language classroom research and teaching methodologies concludes the primary text for the course, How Languages are Learned, by Lightbown and Spada (2006).
Supplementary readings in the secondary text, Controversies in Applied Linguistics, ed. Seidlhofer (2003), allow students to grapple with some of the key controversies in the field, such as the global spread of English, corpus linguistics and language teaching, and the nature of applied linguistics.
Ingen.
Jocelyn Hardman
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, skriftlige opgaver og/eller mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Engelsk
Lightbown Patsy & Nina Spada. 2006. How languages are learned . 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0194222241
Seidlhofer Barbara Ed. 2003. Controversies in Applied Linguistics . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0194374440
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