SOCIAL ASPECTS OF

INTERLANGUAGE
Introduction to Second Language Acquisition, Unnes

Rina Ardiyanti
Candra Arifiana
Etik Indriani
Lina Sofia Andriani

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Introduction
Three approaches to incorporating a social
angle of L2 acquisition :
1. Interlanguage as consisting of different
styles
2. How social factors determine the input
that construct interlanguage
3. How the social identities learners
negotiating in their interactions with native
speakers

Elements
Interlanguage as a stylistic continuum
The aculturation model of L2
acquisition
Social identity and investment in L2
learning

Interlanguage as a stylistic
continuum
Careful style
Elaine Tarone

Stylistic
Continuum

Vernacular
style
Convergence

Howard Giles

Accomodation
Theory
Divergence

Stylistic Continuum
Learners develop capability for using
the L2 and this undelies all regular
language behaviour.

Careful Style
Evident when learners are consciuosly
attending to their choice of linguistic
forms, as when they need to be
correct.

Vernacular Style
Evident when learners are making
spontaneous choices of linguistic
forms as is likely in free conversation.

The Models Problems in

Tarones Theory
1.Learners are not always most
accurate in their careful style and least
accurate in their vernacular style.
2.The role of social factors remains
unclear.

In short, Tarones theory seems to relate

more to psycholinguistic rather than
social factors in variation.

Howard Giless Accommodation

Theory
Explain how a learners social group
influences
the
course
of
L2
acquisition.
The key idea is social accommodation

 Convergence process : When people

interact with each other they either try to
make their speech similar to that of their
adressee in order to emphasize social
cohesiveness.
Divergence process : When people interact
with each other they either try to make it
different in order to emphasize their social
distinctiveness.

According to Giless theory, social factors

influence interlanguage development via
the impact they have on the attitudes that
determine the kinds of language use
learners engage in.

The Acculturation Model of L2

acquisition
John
Schumanns
acculturation
model : social factors determine the
amount of contact with the L2
individual learners experience and
thereby how successful they are in
learning.

The Models Problems in

Schumanns Theory
1. It fails to acknowledge the factors like
integration pattern and attitude are not
fixed and static but variable and dynamic
fluctuating in accordance with the learners
changing social experiences.
2. It fails to acknowledge that learners are not
just subject to social conditions but can
also become the subject of them.

Social Identity and Investment

in L2 Learning
Bonny Pierces view in relationship
between social context and L2
acquistition.
Language learners have complex
social identities that can only be
understood in terms of the power
relations that shape social structures.

 The
learners
success
require
investment, something learners will
only make if they believe their efforts
will increase the value of their cultural
capital.

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