PRESENTATION TASKS

Introduction to a Linguistics

“LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION”
GROUP 11
-SITI ANRIANA
-MUHAMMAD FAUZAN
-SAMSINAR
what is language
acquisition?
language acquisition is the process of
building the ability to understand a
language and use it to communicate
with others
 LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE IS EXTREMELY COMPLEX
CHILDREN BEFORE 5 ALREADY KNOW THE
ACQUISITION
COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT MAKE UP THE
GRAMMAR OF A LANGUAGE:
-SYNTACTIC
-PHONOLOGICAL
-MORPHOLOGICAL
-SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC RULES OF GRAMMAR
CHILDREN ARE CREATIVE IN THE USE OF
LANGUAGE
Mechanism of
language acquisition

imitation

behaviorism

reinforce
analogy
ment
there are roughly six
stages of acquisition:
prelinguistic stage
babbling stage
first words
two words stage
telegraphic stage
beyond telegraphic stage
Language Acquisition is a creative process
The innatennes Hypothesis
1 2 3 4
Language faculty Children Children create Brain is equipped
is innate. the acquire a grammars based for acquisition of
infant is endowed complex on the linguistic human language
with a UG. grammar input and are grammar
UG helps children quickly and guided by UG
to extract the easily
rules of their
language..
language
acquisition
“we are designed to walk., that we
are taught to walk is impossible.
and pretty much the same is true
of language. Nobody is taught
language. In fact you can’t
prevent the child from learning it.”
Noam Chomsky. the human
language serie 2 (1994)
Language Acquisition
Device
AITCHISON (1982:102) TRIES TO DRAW
LAD AS THE FOLLOWING DIAGRAM

Linguistic Universals
Hypothesis Maker.

Evaluation Procedure

Grammar
second language
acquisition
L2 learners construct grammars of the target language.
Fundamental difference hypothesis: L2 acquisition is
different from L1.
Interlanguage grammar-stages
Transfer of grammatical rules from L1 to L2.
Age is a significant factor in L2 acquisition.
 grammar-translation
second language the student memorizes words, inflected words, and

acquisition syntactic rules and uses them to translate from native

to target language and vice versa.

teaching methods
direct method
the native language is not used at all in the classroom,
and the student must learn the new language without
formal instruction.

audio-lingual
hevy use of dialogs and audio, based on the
assumption that language learning is acquired mainly
through imitation, repetition, and reinforcement;
influenced by psychology
“Having some knowledge of the
characteristics of the acquired grammars
and the limitations on the available data,
we can formulate quite reasonable and
fairy strong empirical hypotheses
regarding the internal structure of the
language-acquisition device that constructs
the postulated grammars from the given
data.”
(Chomsky, 1986: 113)
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Language Acquisition Part 1

REFERENCES:
https://web.mnstate.edu/houtsli/tesl551/LangAcq/page1.htm

what is language acquisition? - introduction to linguistics

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