LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LEARNING

How do people acquire/learn a language?

THE NATURAL APPROACH MODEL

Input

Me nt a l B

l ock

Language Acquisition

Device

Monitor (Knowledge of Grammar)

Acquired

Competence

Automaticity ModelBarry McLaughlin

Attention to Formal

Rules of Language

Controlled Automatic

Focal

Peripheral

(Cell A)Performance based on formal rule learning

(Cell B)Performance in a test situation

(Cell C) Performance based on Implicit/analogic learning

(Cell D)Performance in communication situation

Bialystok’s Model of L2 LearningLanguage Exposure

Implicit Linguistic Knowledge

Explicit Linguistic Knowledge

Other Knowledge

R

Inferencing

Monitoring

Type 1

Type 2_____ Processes-------- Strategies

Input

Knowledge

Output

Functional Practicing

FormalPracticing

Inferencing

SLA models: Krashen, Bialystok, McLaughlin