INTRODUCTION Children’s acquisition of language has long been considered one of the uniquely defining characteristics of human behaviour. Still today, it is the commonly held belief that children acquire their mother tongue through imitation of the parents, caregivers or the people in their environment. Linguists too had the same conviction until 1957, when a then relatively unknown man, A. Noam Chomsky, propounded his theory that the capacity to acquire language is in fact innate. This revolutionized
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……………………………………………...………………………………2 III. The place of Grammar in the language teaching……………….…………...2-4 IV. Games and Grammar teaching/learning: A.Background of Grammar Games……………………………………………..…..……4 B.The function of Games………………………………………………………………4-5 C.The roles of teachers and learners………………………………….………5-6 D.Factors affecting Grammar Games: Age……………………………………………………………………..………6-7 Ability in the target language…………………………………..7 Motivation…………………………………………………………………..7-8 Size
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response (TPR) is a language-teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor emeritus of psychology at San José State University. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language, and students respond with whole-body actions. The method is an example of the comprehension approach to language teaching. Listening serves a dual purpose; it is both a means of understanding messages in the language being learned,
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INTRODUCTION Children’s acquisition of language has been considered one of the uniquely defining characteristics of human behavior. Still today, it is the commonly held belief that children acquire their mother tongue through imitation of the parents, caregivers or the people in their environment. Linguists too had the same conviction until 1957, when a then relatively unknown man, A. Noam Chomsky, propounded his theory that the capacity to acquire language is in fact innate. This revolutionized
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There are at least three language factors present that are going to affect Michael’s language acquisition: socialinguistic setting, specific social factors, and Acculturation Model. Two positive forces can be identified in his English language acquisition abilities. He excelled at his grade level while studying/learning in his primary language as he lived in South Korea; and he was forcibly indoctrinated into a culture of English language speakers as he temporarily lived with relatives in the United
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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES THE FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES [pic] THESIS PROPOSAL AN INVESTIGATION ON THE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED BY VIETNAMESE TOUR GUIDES TO OVERCOME LANGUAGE LIMITATIONS WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH FOREIGN TOURISTS (NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ CHIẾN LƯỢC GIAO TIẾP MÀ CÁC HƯỚNG DẪN VIÊN VIỆT NAM SỬ DỤNG ĐỂ KHẮC PHỤC NHỮNG HẠN CHẾ VỀ NGÔN NGỮ
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Sharma, a ten-year-old boy in England, speaks eleven languages. According to Birmingham Mail, Arpan has reached the national final of the Junior Language Challenge from among 2,600 students for the first round of the competition. Arpan speaks Hindi and English at home, and he has learned nine other languages such as Spanish, Mandarin, French, German, and Italian from the age of seven. Arpan said that he was very interested in learning languages, and he was good at quickly catching on to new things
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THE GOOD LANGUAGE LEARNER According to Joan Rubin The good language learner • Is a willing and accurate guesser • Has a strong drive to communicate • Is uninhibited • Attends to form • Practices by seeking out conversation • Monitors his or her own speech and the speech of others • Attends to meaning According to David Stern The good language learner: • Has a personal learning style or positive learning strategies • Has an active approach to the learning task • Has a tolerant and outgoing approach
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Various theories are put forward to describe second language acquisition (SLA). The following theories represent serious thinking over the past century about the way a person acquires or learns a second language. The first theory will be Behaviourism. In mid-century, Burrhus Frederic Skinner developed behaviourist theory which predicted that any human behaviour could be learned through a process of stimulus, response, and positive or negative reinforcement (S-R-R). This S-R-R process is to make
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” Gardner determined motivation as a ‘combination of effort plus require to gain the goal of learning the language plus desirable attitudes towards learning the language’. In his research, Gardner talked about two kinds of motivation, the instrumental and the integrative, with much importance on the former. The instrumental motivation refers to more functional motive for learning the language such as studying English is important because it will enable me to better understand and appreciate the English
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