Category: Language Acquisition

ABSTRACT:When and how much L1 use in EFL has been hotly debated problem among scholars over the decades. Since the existince of communicative approaches like direct method and audio-lingual method that prohibits the L1 in EFL classrooms, the discussion on the subject has grown. This paper analyzes the role and effect of the L1 in English EFL classroom setting. Researches and studies had been made by professionals have been used as a resource.. In this artice I am going to show you advantages and disadvantages of using and not using first language, besides how and when first language should be […]

. According to Goh (1999), 66% of learners stated thatspeaker’s accent is a major difficulty. (Munro & Derwing, 1999)listening comprehensioncanlead to an important reduction in Inaddition, accent is another difficulty that that manydifficulties face learners in the listening comprehension process;consequently, listening remains the most neglected element of language. Some ofthe difficulties could be summarized as the following: While listening,learners’ hear a lot of unfamiliar vocabulary or polysemous words, causingconfusion and leading to unmotivated learners. Moreover, cultural differencesmight be another major obstacle that faces learners. Learners should befamiliar with the cultural knowledge of language that has an important effecton the learners’ […]

Name: Lecturer: Course:Date: Language Acquisition and Critical Period Question One Chomsky’s language acquisition device involves a hypothetic brain module designed to give an account of a child’s progress to acquire a particular language. The concept behind this device revolves around the child mental instinct capacity, hence allowing the child to acquire and produce the language (Birdsong, 32). This device fits into Chomsky’s innateness hypothesis of language acquisition through the premise that humans are born with an innate facility or instinct to acquire language. Chomsky’s innateness hypothesis of language acquisition maintains that children would be unable to acquire language if they […]

Development of Listening Skills in EFL Young Learner Classes           It cannot be denied that not only in daily communication but also in educational process listening plays an important role. Even though, for too long it has been considered the least important and a poorly taught skill in second language acquisition. Because of the fact that while designing their lessons teachers pay more attention to grammar, reading, and vocabulary, EFL students have serious difficulties in acquiring English listening comprehension skills. The paper focuses on the definition and significance of listening and it is presented that what kind of teaching methods teachers […]

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Chomsky’s Innate Theory of Language Development in Children Noam Chomsky is a proponent of the Language Acquisition Device. The linguist suggests that LAD is a brain mechanism that seeks to explain how human beings acquire a syntactic language structure (Chomsky, 1972). The hypothetical mechanism suggests that children in their first two years have the inherent ability to obtain the rules and structures of their language from the scanty language picked up from adults. Language spoken by adults around children is usually irregular. This further elaborates Chomsky’s argument that aspects of language find a limitation that is […]

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          Folk Etymology inLanguage  Jessica BhatiaSan Diego StateUniversity           Folk Etymology             Miller (2014) acknowledges the roleof folk etymology in development of languages in various parts of the world. The author establishes the relationship between folk etymology and the wordforming process. According to Miller (2014), there are various factors thatinteract to cause changes in language and sound. However, he asserts that folketymology is the core aspect that affects language and sound change. To expoundon how folk etymology results in change in language and sound, he firstrecognizes the fact that change in language mostly goes along with sematic andphonetic reduction. With respect to […]

INTRODUCTIONThis chapter discuss about thebackground of the study, scope and limitation, formulation of the problem, objectiveof the study, significant of the study.A.     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYIn Indonesia,English has became the part of important subject to teach and learn fromElementay School up to university. School Based Curriculum (Depdiknas:2006),which is applied by goverment for all schools in Indonesia, lead the studentsto have real life skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing isthe one of important in English Learning. Ariyanti (2016:2) stated that writingis one of the most important aspects in English language acquisition. Teachingwriting has its own challenges since there are some steps […]

There is an ongoing debate about theorigin of language, a debate that parallels the nature versus nurture argument;whether language, and the ability to communicate coherently within the humanspecies, is a trait we are all born with as individuals or whether it is askill we have grown up to learn, shaped by our life experiences andinteractions with the people in our environments.                The’language as an innate tendency’ side of the argument puts forward the idea ofUniversal Grammar and the Language Acquisition Device (LAD), as conceptualisedby Noam Chomsky in 1965. Chomsky believes that humans have an “innate knowledgeof language which serves to […]