Principles And Theories Of Language Acquisition And Learning

PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LEARNING ENG 150: SESSION #1 Instructor: Ms. Rocel Mae Roca

Course Description: • This course deals with the examining and analyzing of the second language acquisition, teaching and learning principles and methods that are essential for creating effective

learning contexts that enhance the student's own learning potential.

Course Description: • This course serves as a general introduction to the study of language acquisition. Principles of first and second language acquisition will be examined in light of such linguistic theory. This will focus on current theoretical notions of language acquisition while paying particular attention to how such notions might become relevant for institutional learning.

Course Outcomes: • Apply essential strategies for developing and integrating the four language skills of listening comprehension, oral communication, reading, and writing. • Identify the political, social, and cultural issues related to language teaching

Course Outcomes: • Design and implement effective daily lesson plans which meet the needs of students within the context of the regular classroom. • Understand the differences and similarities between first language acquisition and second/ multi language acquisition

Course Outcomes: • Understand the role of different factors influencing language acquisition such as age, transfer, and the linguistic and social environment. • Develop an understand of how language is acquired as a first language or as a second.

Course Requirements: • Language Teaching/Demonstration –P1: classroom based –P2: community based –P3: school based

ACTIVITY Let’s CHILL 

ACTIVITY: Sentence Formation • Rearrange the given words to form a correct sentence. • Write the answer on the given paper then give it to the game master through doing the twist indicated. • The first group who will be able to give first the correct sentence will get two (2) points.

READY? Let’s CHILL 

Sentence #1

too/feel/I/today/hot

Sentence #1

I feel too hot today.

Sentence #2

I/a/caught/when/ was/on/disease/ holiday/I

Sentence #2

I caught a disease when I was on holiday.

Sentence #3

hurt/eyes/really/ my/much/if/I/ computer/use/too/ the

Sentence #3

My eyes really hurt if I use the computer too much.

Sentence #4

nurses/the/in/will/ look/hospital/ after/you/the

Sentence #4

The nurses in the hospital will look after you.

Sentence #5

this/three/a/ medicine/take/day /times

Sentence #5

Take this medicine three times a day.

Sentence #6

bleeding/bandage/ with/stop/the/try /to/a

Sentence #6

Try to stop the bleeding with a bandage.

Sentence #7

oven/hot/careful/ don’t/on/burn/ yourself/the/you/ be

Sentence #7

Be careful you don’t burn yourself on the hot oven.

Sentence #8

because/all/ coughed/day/I/ cold/had/a/I

Sentence #8

I coughed all day because I had cold.

Sentence #9

my/playing/I/ injured/football/ leg

Sentence #9

I injured my leg playing football.

Sentence #10

she/operate/if/better /get/need/doesn’t/ the/will/to/doctor

Sentence #10

If she doesn’t get better the doctor will need to operate.

Sentence #11

died/he/collapsed/ heart/ and/ of/ attack/a

Sentence #11

He collapsed and died a heart attack.

Sentence #12

develop/might/your/ into/illness/serious/ something/more

Sentence #12

Your illness might develop into something more serious.

Sentence #13

blood/saw/she/when /fainted/she/the

Sentence #13

She fainted when she saw the blood.

Sentence #14

hat/head/my/this/ itch/makes

Sentence #14

This hat makes my head itch.

Sentence #15

mosquito/don’t/your /bites/scratch

Sentence #15

Don’t scratch your mosquito bites.

PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LEARNING ENG 150: SESSION #1 Instructor: Ms. Rocel Mae Roca

Characteristics of Language 1. Language is systematic. 2. Language is a set of arbitrary symbols. 3. Those symbols are primarily vocal, but may also be visual, 4. The symbols have conventionalized meanings to which they refer. 5. Language is used for communication.

Characteristics of Language 6. Language operates in a speech community or culture. 7. Language is essentially human, although possibly not limited to humans. 8. Language is acquired by all people in much the same way; language and language learning both have universal characteristics.

Areas focused on the characteristics of Language 1. Explicit and formal accounts of the system of language on several possible levels (e.g.,phonological, syntactic, lexical, and semantic analysis) 2. The symbolic nature of language; the relationship between language and reality; the philosophy of language; the history of language 3- Phonetics; phonology; writing systems; the role of gesture, distance, eye contact, and other "paralinguistic" features of language 4. Semantics; language and cognition; psycholinguistics

Areas focused on the characteristics of Language 5.

Communication systems; speaker-hearer interaction; sentence processing 6. Dialectology: socio linguistics; language and culture; pragmatics; bilingual ism and second language acquisition 7. Human language and nonhuman communication: neurolinguistics; innate factors; genetic transmission; nature vs. nurture 8. Language universals; first language acquisition

What is Learning? 1. Learning is acquisition or "getting." 2. Learning is retention of information or skill. 3. Retention implies storage systems, memory, cognitive organization. 4. Learning involves active, conscious focus on and acting upon events outside or inside the organism.

What is Learning? 5. Learning is relatively permanent but subject to forgetting. 6. Learning involves some form of practice, perhaps reinforced practice. 7. Learning is a change in behavior.