TEST TEMA 6 Inglés

Children acquire their mother tongue naturally.

Learning a Foreign Language works on the same way as L1 acquisition.

In regard to Traditional Foreign Language Teaching, students learnt about the language (learning) and could also use it in real contexts (acquisition).

Since the 70s, the belief that language was a means of communicating language inspired a new approach to the teaching of English as a FL, that is, the Communicative Competence.

The concept of Communicative Competence was firstly introduced by Chomsky, who argued that it was impossible for people to acquire a language by simple repetition and reinforcement.

Hymes stated that, in order to learn a language, a native speaker does not only need to utter grammatically correct forms (as Chomsky thought), but he also has to know the rules of use, that is, where and when to use a sentence, and to whom.

Mastering a language just implies linguistic knowledge.

Linguistics is the broad discipline that studies language as human communication, broad discipline concerned with the role of language within human life, dealing with both theory “acquisition” and practice “use” of language.

Anybody could learn a language without any kind of knowledge regarding linguistics.

All humans are able to achieve the communicative competence in whatever language is spoken around them when growing up, with apparently little need for conscious instruction.

Linguists assume that the ability to acquire and use language cannot be innate.

Structuralism is based on the generation of organised rules.

Applied linguistics lays on solving real-world problems.

Regarding Saussure, like education, the linguistic sign implies all the aspects of society, religion or culture.

One of our main goals as teachers should be to make our students perceive how the rules of the FL are organised, structured and coded as a whole, being able to know and understand the functioning of the FL, developing their human dignity, ceasing to be disabled speakers and becoming communicatively competent.

Regarding cognitivism, language is innately based in evolutionarily-developed faculties of the human mind. Therefore, creating, learning and using language must be explained regarding human cognition, that is, human intellectual development.

Chomsky is against the innate capacity of the brain to use language instinctively, innately and unconsciously.

The Language Acquisition Device consists of a conscious process of transmitting information to foreign students.

How do grammar and linguistics differ from each other?

What does the behaviourist theory consist of?

Name some differences and similarities among L1 acquisition and L2 learning.