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Key Issues in Second Language Acquisition

The document discusses key issues in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), highlighting factors such as age, motivation, and personality that influence learning. It differentiates between SLA, first language acquisition, and foreign language acquisition, emphasizing that SLA is not uniform and is affected by various learning contexts. Additionally, it addresses the roles of competence versus performance, acquisition versus learning, and the impact of the first language on learning a second language.

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Key Issues in Second Language Acquisition

The document discusses key issues in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), highlighting factors such as age, motivation, and personality that influence learning. It differentiates between SLA, first language acquisition, and foreign language acquisition, emphasizing that SLA is not uniform and is affected by various learning contexts. Additionally, it addresses the roles of competence versus performance, acquisition versus learning, and the impact of the first language on learning a second language.

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Febrina Berliana 06011282126039

Second Language Acquisition

Key Issues in Second Language Acquisition

Factors and processes such as elements or actions that can influence or determine the way learners
learn a second language are key issues in second language acquisition. For example, such as age,
motivation, talent, personality, instructions, feedback, interlanguage, fossilization, etc.

SLA as a uniform phenomenon

SLA is not an equal or uniform and predictable phenomenon. SLA is the product of many factors related
to the way students learn and different learning situations.

SLA VS First language acquisition

SLA is the process of learning another language after the first, usually in adulthood.

Meanwhile, first language is the process of learning a person's main language, usually during childhood.

SLA VS Foreign language acquisition

Foreign language is used to denote language acquired in an environment where it is not usually spoken.

Second language is a language that is a means of communication other than the first language

The centrality of syntax and morphology

Research has primarily focused on grammatical and morpheme subsystems, neglecting the acquisition
of phonology and lexis. However, recent research emphasizes communicative skills and pragmatic
knowledge. Understanding discourse participation is now important for the acquisition of better
grammar

Competence VS Performance

Competence: mental representation of linguistic rules which is the grammar internalized by the
speaker's audience.

Performance: language comprehension and production.

Acquisition VS Learning
Acquisition: taking a moment of language through exposure and it's subconscious.

Learning: consciously learning a second language Ellis (1985)

The role of the first language

-meaning that many people thought that the main reason why learners had problems with learning a
second language was because of their native language.

-The difference between L1 & L2, namely the student's L1 knowledge will interfere with L2. Similarities
between L1 & L2, namely the help of L1 knowledge of L2 learning learners.

-This process is called language transfer. The science that studies these differences is called Contrastive
Analysis.

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