TOPIC 2.

GENERAL
THEORIES OF LG
LEARNING & L2
ACQUISITION. THE 2.Sociolinuistic
CONCEPT OF 1.2
perspective

INTERLANGUAGE &
2.1 DISCOURSE
BEHAVIOURISM Halliday
Bloomfield

TREATMENT OF
ERRORS.
1.1INNATISM 2.2 LABOVIAN
Chomsky PARADIGM
Labov

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
- we listen with pleasure to the sounds
made by a 3month old baby. He says ba ba
ba; a 1-year old baby says mommy, daddy,
ball, bye, hi, no, dog, baby, woof woof, and
banana. But what enables a child to learn
1.Linguistic
perspective
GENERAL 3.Neurolinguistic
perspective
words & put them together? Children build
their abilities to put words together upon
THEORIES
their experiences of playing, listening and
understanding words and sentences. Young
children start by using single words and
gradually put two words together then 4.2
THENOTICING 3.1
HYPOTHESIS HEMISPHERE
three and four, using the words they know. DMINANCE

- in terms of 2nd lg acquisition: we

need to distinguish btw a bilingual child
4.1 THE 3.2 AGE
that acquire a MT & L2 without effort INTERACTION HYPOTHESIS
HYPOTHESIS
because that happened simultaneously 4.Cognitive
& the older leaner of a L2 that won’t perspective
speak until they had enough knowledge
of L2.
INTERLANGUAGE TREATMENT OF ERRORS

Selinker (1972) suggested that CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

five principal processes operated HYPOTHESIS
Error analysis serves therefore a
in interlanguage:
twofold purpose; on the one hand it
1. language transfer, use of
serves to understand the underlying
native words in place of L2 ones.
processes the learners go through so
2. overgeneralization, -ed flied,
that we can better understand the
flew regularize the lg. construction of learners' interlanguage.
3. transfer of training, teacher’s On the other, it will guide us on the
mistakes: fossilization of errors teaching-learning process.
4. strategies of l2 learners:
hyperegularization or imitation.
5. strategies of l2 communication,
improvise.