Interlanguage

Interlanguage

1. Explain the five central processes with your own words.

• Language transfer, this process occur in our IL performance. It is refers to speakers or writers applying knowledge from their native language to a second language, can occur in any situation when someone does not have a native-level command of a language.
• Transfer of training, when language teaching creates interlanguage rules that are not of the L2 and which result in the way the learners were taught.
• Strategies of second language learning, e.g. simplification
• Strategies of second language communication, when learner omits grammatically redundant items in an utterance, producing ill-formed sentences.

• Overgeneralization of TL linguistic material, where the learner tries to use TL rules and semantic features in the way there would not be used by a native speaker.

2. Which of these processes can be apply to you in terms of your L2 acquisition?.

Language transfer and Transfer of training

3. Which aspects have you fossilized?.

• Plurals.

• Pronunciation

True of false (justify the false)

a) ___F__ Unsuccessful second language learning refers to the generalization problem; the generalization problem refers to the use of different units of language, and these units are used for all languages the Native Language, Inter-language, Target Language.
b) ___F__ Storage refers to the process of recalling information that is stored in memory; retrieval In psychology, retrieval refers to the process of recalling information that is stored in memory, and storage refers to the process of storing information in the brain, those are mental processes.
c) ____T_ Some conditions that affect in the process of learning a new language are anxiety, shifting attention and second language performance.
d) ___T__ Fossilization can not be reversible.

How language is shaped.

How language is shaped.

Indicate IF TRUTH OR FALSE, provide the correct info.

Chomsky claimed that:

1. We have a predisposition to speak.___T__
2. We have not been genetically programmed with mental structures.____F___; we have been genetically programmed with mental structures.
3. Nouns, adjective and adverb are not used in our universal grammar.___F___ ; nouns, adjectives, adverbs are used in all language but their differences are situated in the grammar structures.
4. We are able to learn an Alien´s language_F__; the Alien's language could have different codes.
5. Skinner believes that a language organ can develop regarding the environment ___T_____

Match the following pictures to the corresponding theory, and therefore author.

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¡ CHOMSKY__A__
¡ SKINNER__B__

Innateness Hypothesis