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INTERNAL PROCESSINGUniversidad Latina de Costa Rica- Centro Internacional de PostgradosMaestría Ciencias de la Educación con énfasis en la Enseñanza del Inglés- Language Acquisition Course- Licda. Melissa González Castro
How do you acquire a language?
Learner’s motives, needs, attitudes and emotional states filter what they hear affecting the quality of language.
• integrative motivation• instrumental motivation• social group identification motive
It guides the acquisition process, limiting what can be learned and rejecting material which does not fit yet into the emerging system.
• Transitional constructions• Errors in speech• Order of structures
Learners consciously formulate sentences and to correct or edit their speech and writing. Factors:
• Learner’s age• Verbal task being performed• Learner’s personality
Emotional stages
Filtering determines:• Target language models the learner selects• Parts of the new language the learner attends
to first• When language efforts cease• How fast the learner acquire the language