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Language Acquisition

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If a Spanish learner of English says "I have ten years old", how can you explain the error made by the speaker?

Negative transfer

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How did Behaviourism influence Contrastive Analysis?

Stimulus-Response-Reinforcement

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Is this statement TRUE or FALSE? The focus of EA is to describe and compare the surface forms of both L1 and L2 systems.

FALSE. EA placed the focus on the underlying rules of both languages.

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What theory influenced the emergence of EA? Elaborate.

Mentalism: Knowing a language was seen as a matter of knowing its underlying rules rather than memorizing surface structures.

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Contrast how CA and EA view errors.

CA: bad habits- EA: window to the learners' mind

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Compare how CA and EA's view of learners.

CA: passive recipients of lge stimuli- EA: active and creative participants

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What is the difference between interlingual and intralingual errors?

interlingual: between lges (positive-negative transfer); intralingual: within languages (developmental errors- incomplete learning of the L2))

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Come up with a definition of Interlanguage.

intermediate states of a learner's language as it moves towards the target L2.

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Refer to 2 characteristics of Interlanguage.

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Refer to one difference between Chomsky's theory and Halliday's theory.

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Refer to three differences between the process of 1st language acquisition and 2nd language learning.

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Why does Chomsky say that children have an innate capacity for language learning?

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What is Universal Grammar (UG)?

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How many hypotheses are proposed by the Monitor Model (Krashen)? Refer to two of them.

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What distinction does Krashen make between "learning" and "acquisition"?

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Illustrate the "Natural order" hypothesis with two examples.

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