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...and makes them eager to learn the social or cultural contributions made by various groups of people. Cognitive Theory of Language Learning Another theory in learning is Ausubel’s Cognitive Learning theory wherein meaningful processes of associating new information to already known concepts are known to bring about learning. Ausubel contrasts rote learning from meaningful learning in that rote learning is the acquisition of material as “discrete and relatively isolated entities that are relatable to cognitive structure only in an arbitrary and verbatim...
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...?Strategies used by the teacher A child after birth and before entering into puberty has marked performance in learning the second language as compared to post-pubescent children or adults. In Wendehack video 2, the teacher is making use of multimedia to make the lesson interesting for them. She is trying to teach them vocabulary regarding food. She makes them look at the map and point out a place at the map. A child touch somewhere on the map and the slide moves on to the food specialty of that country. She targets at their imaginative skills by asking them to name the food they see on the screen. Children respond according to their imagination. This way they are able to make a link...
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...Running head: FACTORS AFFECTING SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Factors Affecting Second Language Acquisition By: GCU This paper presents the views of Aida Walqui and Jim Cummins on how should a second language be taught to students keeping in view the various social factors affecting it.
Factors Affecting Second Language Acquisition
A lot of research has been done on how teaching of a new language to students should be done. The following paper focuses on views presented by Aida Walqui and Jim Cummins on this topic. While Walqui focuses mainly on students immigrating to English-speaking countries, Cummins focuses more on English-language being learnt in non-English speaking countries. The various arguments put forth by them... and the...
2 Pages(500 words)Book Report/Review
...Second Language Acquisition affiliation Second Language Acquisition The acquiring of a second or third language is avice that can be acquired either through tutoring or personal experience. In an argument by Hauser, Noam & Tecumseh (2002) acquiring another language is a personal choice and experience. It is an obvious assumption that a learner values a lot their first language considering the fact they feel comfortable speaking it. It is my belief that a tutor’s effort and the effort by the learner. In teaching practice, the way in which a learner acquires a...
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...product of learning a second language, and not just the process itself. They consider the term as meaning a native-like fluency.
Introduction
It is important to highlight that his paper delves in the discussion of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In this, what comes out so clearly is that the second language is not that easy to speak owing to the new nature of the language to the person. In the paper therefore, it can be easily noted that the audience are twenty five Greek Cypriots students who are from different departments and they are addressed in a...
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...Sur Second Language Acquisition Annotated Bibliography Gruber-Miller, John. When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Internet resource.
In this book, Gruber-Miller John presents a comprehensive coverage on the teaching of Greek and Latin languages to beginners who are not the native speakers of these languages. He says that language is a very powerful tool that every person should be armed with because it can help in communicating ideas and one’s thoughts. So, when teaching a second language to students, the teacher should be keen...
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...effective.
Works Cited
Cook, Vivian. Second Language Learning and Language Teaching. London: Routledge. 2008.
Ferlazzo, Larry and Katie Hull Sypnieski. The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to- Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels. New York: Jossey-Bass. Print.
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...Second Language Acquisition
Introduction
Research on second language acquisition for non-English speakers show that a variety of errors are strongly associated with the process of learning second language (Gass, and Selinker, 2003). Paying attention to the needs of second language students, it is observed that educators or teachers have a variety of methods to apply in ensuring that the teaching objectives are met. However, in order to ensure that the students and the teacher do not conflict over the content in written and spoken English (Elfers et al....
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