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Second Language Learning
Second Language Learning
Second Language Learning
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Second Language Learning
• Vocabulary
• Pragmatics
• Phonology
• Sampling Learners Language
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Vocabulary:
The Importance of Vocabulary
• Vocabulary is central to English language teaching because
without sufficient vocabulary students cannot understand others
or express their own ideas.
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Vocabulary:
The Importance of Vocabulary
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Points to Remember
• Aspects of the second language that are different from the
first language will not necessarily be acquired later or with
more difficulty than those aspects that are similar.
• Second language learning is not simply a process of putting
second-language words into first-language sentences.
• Learners may not always be able to take advantage of
similarities unless they are pointed out to them.
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Points to Remember
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Pragmatics deals with:
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Rules
• Pragmatic rules vary across and within cultures.
• Pragmatic awareness helps students improve
communication and avoid problems.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Pragmatics
• People's intended meaning. • Difficult to reach true meaning
• Their assumptions • We do not know what the
• Their purposes and goals. other person meant.
• Every individual has their own
• And kind of actions.
way of interpreting
• Example: • Level of understanding varies.
• Have you got any cash on • For Example:
you?
• Do you wanna go for a lunch?
• Deep meaning: Can you
• Ohh my god he/she is asking
lend me some money, I don’t
me out.
have much with me.
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Phonology
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Phonology
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Sampling Learners’ language
• The starting point in SLA is deciding what samples of learner
language to use for the analysis and how to collect these samples.
• A massive samples involves collecting several samples of
languages use from a large number of learners in order to compile
a comprehensive list of errors, representative of the entire
population.
• A specific sample consist of one sample of language use collected
from a limited number of learners.
• Incidental sample involves only one sample of language use
produced by a single learner.
• E.g Corpus Linguistics
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What is corpus Linguistics ?
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