sábado, 25 de agosto de 2018

Hi everybody!! i have a question for you... have you ever wonderer how babies acquire language?
Well, there is a theory for describing their first language acquisition and it was developed by Noam Chomsky who is an 89-year-old American linguist.


He believes that children have an innate capacity to learn the rules of language. They have a LAD (Language Acquisition Device) which facilitates language development. But how do they learn? well.. there are stages which children follow until the age of 5 or 6 when they have acquire a linguistic competence. 
These are the stages that they follow: 

In this video you will see a two-year-old boy who is able to form full sentences, name animals and to ask questions to his mother. Why? because he is in a Telegraphic stage and it means that he has the ability to do all this things. 



But what happens if you want to learn a second language? Do we acquire a second language in the same way?...... nop... do you know why? because when we learn a second language there are many factors which play an important role in a second language acquisition process.
Here you have some of the factors:
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As you can see there are many factors. And you may think..



Think about it and later I'll explain Second Language Acquisition theory.. stay tuned :) and enjoy your weekend 




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