Second language acquisition

The researcher teaches Special Education Reading at the high school level. Some students in the researcher’s classroom receive special education services and are English Language Learners (ELL). Students whose first language is English and students whose second language is English bother need support in learning content language that is used in the classroom to aid with reading, discussion, and assignments (Sibold, 2011). The researcher works with students who are cognitively impaired. Most of…

first moments after birth, infants start interacting with a world that is brand new to them: a social world based on communication and the different forms it takes (Clark, 2016: 21). Among these, language is one of the most significant. It is thought that, even prior to birth, children are able to absorb language from their mothers (McElroy, 2013) and, once they are born, they begin the continuous metamorphosis that will transform them into adults. It is important to note that children’s growth…

they “always have to do with some grammatical mistakes that children might ‘logically’ make on the basis of ‘simple induction’ and the like, but do not,” further allowing him to come to the conclusion that children must have an innate knowledge of language and its structure. The poverty of stimulus argument primarily takes a nativist approach to linguistic theory, as it implies that children have some innate biological way of not making high probability and logical mistakes. Crain (2012) also…

both linguists have a completely different point of view. Nevertheless, they agree that language can be developed from childhood so the linguists generated some theoretical assumptions in order to understand how human achieves language acquisition. Chomsky hypothesis establishes that humans develop language on account of an inborn faculty which he denominated Language Acquisition Device (L.A.D.) This language faculty it is based on a set of common grammatical rules expanded into a Universal…

compares Victor with the more recent case of Genie: “In recent years, scientists have worked out a theory that sounds like a refinement of Locke's and Condillac's tabula rasa or wax-tablet figure. Many experiments show that right-handed people learn language, mathematics, and logic with the left hemisphere of their brains, and do other kinds of thinking related to space, vision, and touch with the right hemisphere. Complex cross-circuitry connects the two sides. In left-handed individuals, the…

While perusing the list of notable people within the field of library studies, I came across Judith Krug. I felt that it was serendipitous that I picked out her name as my librarians and I were eagerly discussing plans for Banned Book Week. This American Library Association (ALA) campaign is widely looked forward to not just by myself, but by library teams across the country. It’s only fitting to honor her by researching her accomplishments and continuing her life’s work in preserving…

in the school yard were just as important to Griselda’s English language…

adapt to a new environment, it is important and useful to find some motivations that promote us to acquire the second language firstly and secondly cultivate a vision of culture co-existence and harmony that strengthen the cultural connection. This view is supported by Julie Traves in “The Church of Please and Thank You”, who presents some potential motivations to learn another language and Kwame Anthony Appiah in “The Shattered Mirror”, who also favors culture co-existence and harmony. Eva…

ten years old. According to his parents during an interview at the school, Carlos only speaks English when he is at school. The rest of the time he speaks Spanish to his family and friends, which limits his exposure and practice with the English language. This is unfortunate because according to parallel distributed processing (PDP) “the brain is a social brain. Learning is influenced by the levels of social interactions of others” (Ariza, 2010). The family unit is very important in traditional…

the book explains the history of ESL writing instruction and describes models of second language acquisition. It is important to re-examine the goals of the writing class. We need to know what are learners ’goals might be. For the most part, everyone learns to write at school. Writing is not a naturally simple interaction, so we have to understand the specific difficulties of L2 students. In learning a second language, the learners…