What is the role played by the Native Language in SLA

Hitesh Galthariya

Roll No :- 08 M.A. Sem :- 3 Year :- 2015-16

Paper :- 12 English Language Teaching

Submitted to :-Smt.S.B. Gardi

Department of EnglishM.K.Bhav.University

Introduction

• Native language is a mother tongue.

• SLA can be learned easily with the help of Native Language.

• But if it is learned in scientific way, it is said to be the best Learning.

• Acquisition is the best way to acquire.

SLA or Second Language (L2) acquisition

Process by which people learn a second language

Scientific discipline devoted to studying that process

Although teaching can affect acquisition

• SLA closely related to

Psychology

Education

Cognitive psychology

Origin

• Since the 1980s SLA has been studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical perspectives.

Some important

approaches in this field

are:

Systemic functional linguistics

Socio cultural theory

Skill acquisition

theory

connectionism

Noam Chomsky’s universal grammar

Stage of SLA for a Native Learner

Preproduction

Production

Speech emergence

Intermediate fluency

Fluency SLA can be

divided into five stages

Pre-production

• Silent period

• Learner receive up to 500 words.

• Not creatively on their own.

Production

• Learner speaks short phase, memorizes and makes mistakes.

• 1000 words vocabulary.

Speech emergence

• Speech emergence• 3000 words vocabulary.• communicate using simple phrases and simple

questions.• Make grammatical errors.

Intermediate fluency

• 6000 words vocabulary• complicated structures, thoughts and opinions

frequent• errors in complex sentences.

Fluency

• After learning of 5 – 10 years learners can level the fluency of native speakers.

For example

• Learners use rules from the second language roughly in the same way that children over generalize in their first language.

Spanish speakers learning English may say- “Is

raining” rather than “ It is raining”.

Basic theory

• Native language growth must have the way of Foreign language growth.

• The basic theories are fundamental pillars of language

• Its relevance to education is undeniable

conclusion

• Language cannot be translated completely and hence all second language learners, till they are at lower stages make errors.

• Untill they do not acquire efficiency they continue making errors.

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