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language. Noam Chomsky is one of the most
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Nativists believe that infants have an innate
capability for acquiring language. ...
... in
Second Language Acquisition
Jacqueline Norris-Holt
This paper explores Gardner's socio-educational model and the significance of motivation
as a contributing factor in second language (L2) acquisition. ... the amount of time spent studying the language
and then output, expressed as linguistic performance when investigating language learning.
In order to examine language learning in the Japanese context ... Larson-Freeman and Long 1994), whose focus was on first
language acquisition. Mowrer proposed that a child's success when learning a first
language could be attributed to the desire to gain...
... competence in a second
language . Therefore, the language learner capable of using a wide variety of
language learning strategies appropriately can improve his languageskills in a
better way. ... the focus on languageskills
In fact, the focus of research on learning strategies might be on all four language
skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) or on one or more language
modalities ... the four skills because many of
the language learning tasks and activities are crossed modalities. Respondents were
asked to describe their strategies in general in second language acquisition. ...
... learns
to interpret the meaning of natural language.
It is especially important in language ground-
ing where the training data usually consist of
language paired with an ambiguous perceptual
context. ... 2012.
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David L. Chen
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
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language processing (NLP). Traditional learning ap-
proaches have relied on access to parallel corpora of
natural language sentences paired with their mean-
ings...
... leading approach to language acquisition,
largely in the tradition of generative linguistics, is
motivated by the fact that although child language is
different from adult language, it is different ... the inadequacies of the previous
approaches to language acquisition, we will pro-
pose a theory that aims to meet language learn-
ability and language development conditions simul-
taneously. ... contact with two languages
(grammars), say, T1 and T2. Since Cl > 0 and c2 > 0,
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... writing, which are the main language skills.
1.3.3. Listening as a means of acquiring a language
“ Listening to spoken English is an important way of acquiring the language of “
picking up” structures ... our
native language with ease.
1.3.2. Listening as the final goal of learning a language
According to Donoghue (1975), listening occupies the basic portion in the context of
the language arts ... foreign languages. Among these languages
are English, French, Chinese, Russian, Japanese and German, the majority are students of
English. This school is one of the members of College of Foreign Languages,...
... teaching of the four languageskills that acknowledge
the interdependence of language and communication.
1.3.2. Principles
According to Richard, J. C. and Rodgers, T. S., Communicative Language Teaching ... Communicative Language Teaching
1.3.1. Definition
According to American and British proponents, Communicative Language Teaching is an
approach that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language ... introduction of the new Tieng Anh 6-9 textbook series
based on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in junior high schools, language
teaching in Quang Ngai has experienced the shift from grammatical...
... Department, College of Foreign Languages, VNU-Hanoi for
their enthusiastic support.
I am sincerely grateful to Mr. Đinh Tấn Bảo and my colleagues of Foreign
Languages Department, Quang Ngai ... methods / approaches 4
1.3. An overview of communicative language teaching 5
1.3.1. Definition 5
1.3.2. Principles 5
1.3.3. Techniques for language teaching 6
1.4. Summary 6
Chapter 2: An Investigation ... those who have kindly advised and helped me during the
period of my study at College of Foreign Languages, VNU-Hanoi.
Finally, I wish to thank my wife for the love she gives me and her encouragement...
... technology in the second language writing
class. The first step is to divide a class into teams of an equal number of students; ideally
Developing Writing Skills in a Foreign
Language via the Internet ... second language development. This text describes a procedure
whereby the collaboration of equally skilled second language learners, along the integration
of electronic technology into the second language ... potential to aid in the development of second language
learner’s skills. Results of a number of studies indicate that the Internet is found to contain
real language in a meaningful context (Warschaur...
... individual languageskills and easily applied in the classroom. One feature
of these games is that students with lower language ability in a team can still contribute if
they are good at skills ... motivation.
• reduce learning anxiety.
• integrate various linguistic skills.
• encourage creative and spontaneous use of language.
• construct a cooperative learning environment.
• foster ... map-reading and problem-solving skills, but it also added a dynamic atmosphere
to the competition. The participants were college freshmen at lower-intermediate language
level (about 18 years...