Chapter VIII
Language Acquisition
Mother Tongue
Primer to Language Use
Stages to Mother Tongue
Do Children Learn By Imitation?
Stages of first language learning
a,one word
Apple,(I would like to have an apple,This is an apple.)
b,two words
Daddy,apple.
c,more words
Doggy sit here,
Importance of Correction
Pronouns
he,she,it
He is a housewife.
This is a doggy,it is nice.
Sentences
Child,I had no nothing.
Mom,You should say,I had nothing.”
Child,Ok,I had no nothing.
Mom,My dear,please say,had nothing”,without,no”.
Child,Alright,I had no nothing.
Mom,…
Importance of Schooling
What do we learn at school?
a.,grammar school”,
understanding rules of reading and writing.
b,related world knowledge
cats are animals.
c,right way of pronouncing the word
d,other related aspects of life
Second Language Learning (I)
Learning vs Acquisition
a,naturalness of learning
interference (Mother tongue to target language)
I learn a lot of knowledge from my teacher,(Cf,Chinese)
Eat,eat,please
adaptation (Mother tongue to target language)
I love the book,(Cf,Chinese word order)
He goes to Beijing.
Second Language Learning (II)
b,school learning and environment
Naturalness of learning:
Have you had breakfast?
vs
How are you doing?
Second Language Learning (III)
c,text books
Chinese English
Information Releasing Conference
vs
Press Conference
Chinglish
People mountain,people sea.
Give some color to look look,
Second Language Learning (IV)
d,media for language learning,the
unavoidable power
TV,Radio,Newspaper,CD,DVD,internet,
movie
Ways to Enhance Learning
Games
Social practice
Role play
Norms of communication
Patterns of life
Forms of community
Forms of life