Group #1:

Alcántara Sánchez Michelle

Arredondo Camín Esmeralda

Adrián Savela

Roosevelt

How do people acquire

language?

Theory of language

A) Structural View

B) Functional View

C) Interactional View

Structural View

PhonologicalUnits

GrammaticalUnits

GrammaticalOperations

Functional View

Categoriesof meaningand function.

Elements of structureand grammar.

• Emphasize

the semantic

and

communicati

ve

dimensions.

Interactional View Language is seen as a tool for the creation and

the maintenance of social relations.

Interactionanalysis

Conversationanalysis

Ethnometology

According with a language research

in the University of British Columbia,

CANADA…

There is considerable agreement that the course of

language development and acquisition reflects the

interplay of factors in at least five domains:

A) Social

B) Perceptual

C) Cognitive processing

D) Conceptual and linguistic.

STAGE 1:PRE-

PRODUCTION

THIS IS A SILENT PERIOD

500 WORDS IN THEIR RECEPTIVE

VOCABULARY

STAGE 2:EARLY PRODUCTION

THIS STAGE LAST UP TO 6 MONTHS

1000 WORDS IN THE VOCABULARY

STAGE 3:SPEECH

EMERGENCE

3,000 WORDS IN THEIR

VOCABULARY

STAGE 4: INTERMEDIATE

FLUENCY

6,000 WORDS IN THEIR

VOCABULARY

STAGE 5:ADVANCE

FLUENCY

IT TAKES STUDENTS FROM 4-10

YEARS TO ACHIEVE COGNITIVE

ACADEMIC LANGUAGE

PROFICIENCY IN SECOND

LANGUAGE.

References C. Richards, Jack, S. Rodgers, Theodore.

“Approaches and Methods in Language

Teaching”. Cambridge: Cambrigde University

Press, 1986.

Jhonston, Judith. “Factors that influence

language development”. University of British

Columbia, Canada, 2010.