Considerations in the L2 learning process (summary H. Brown)
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Transcript of Considerations in the L2 learning process (summary H. Brown)
Elizabeth Ruiz Ortega
PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE
LEARNING AND TEACHING
by H. Douglas Brown.
CONSIDERATIONS IN THE LEARNING
PROCESS
Neurological considerations
Right-Hemispheric Participation: Second language learning
significant participation (active during early stages) Strategies of meanings and utterancesBiological
Timetables:
LOWER-ORDER: pronunciation – dependent on early maturing.
HIGHER-ORDER: semantic relations.
Lateralisation:
LEFT Hemisphere: intellectual, logical and analytic functions
RIGHT Hemisphere: emotional and social needs
ABOUT THE CRITICAL PERIODNormal course of life - adults are able to acquire second languages perfectly.
Apparent advantage of the child – motivation, affective variables, social factors and the quality of input
Cognitive considerationsHuman cognition develops rapidly throughout the first sixteen
years of life and less rapidly thereafter
Affective considerationsAffect the learning process:O InhibitionsONegative Attitudes
OPuberty– physical, cognitive and emotional changes
OLanguage Ego
OThe identity developed by a person in reference to the language s/he speaks OPeer pressure: comparisons.
The affective domain includes many factors: Empathy, self-
steem, extroversion, inhibition, imitation, anxiety, attitudes
.
Linguistic considerations
First language as a facilitating factor:OCoordinate Compound Bilinguals – One meaning system from which both languages operate O Code-switching – communication between bilinguals. Insertion of words, phrases, etc. OFormulation of linguistic rules O Available linguistic information – native language, second language, teachers, classmates, and peers.
*Bilingualism: distinguish L1-L2
*Interference between L1-L2
Order in acquisition