| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Foreign Language Teaching (2010) |
 Subjects |
| SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2015_16 |
| Subject | SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | Code | 12695101 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | First | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| First Language Acquisition | 1. Language and the brain 2. Theoretical approcahes to explaining first language acquisition. 3. Stages in the acquisition of the L1 (English). 4.Child-directed speech |
| Second Language Acquisition | 1. Second Language Acquisition in context 2. Second language acquisition theories 3. The role of input 4. Bilingualism |
| Interlanguage | 1. The concept of IL 3. Characteristics of IL 4. IL and the developmental sequences 4. Selinker five processes 5. Errors. |
| Individual learner differences | 1. Age of acquisition. 2. Aptitude and Intelligence 3. attitude and motivation 4. personality 5. Anxiety, self-esteem and willingness to communicate. 6. Learner preferences. 7. Learner believes 8. Learner styles. |
| The role of the L1 in ESL/AFL | 1. Definition of transfer in SLA 2. Terminological issues 3. Types of transfer 4. New directions in the study of transfer 5. Constraints on transferability 6. What can be transferred? 7. Identification of transfer. |
