1. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF
INTERLANGUAGE
Introduction to Second Language Acquisition, Unnes
Rina Ardiyanti
Candra Arifiana
Etik Indriani
Lina Sofia Andriani
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2. Introduction
Three approaches to incorporating a
social angle of L2 acquisition :
1. Interlanguage
as
consisting
of
different styles
2. How social factors determine the input
that construct interlanguage
3. How the social identities learners
negotiating in their interactions with
native speakers

3. Elements
Interlanguage as a stylistic continuum
The aculturation model of L2
acquisition
Social identity and investment in L2
learning

4. Interlanguage as a stylistic
continuum
Careful style
Elaine Tarone
Stylistic
Continuum
Vernacular
style
Convergence
Howard Giles
Accomodation
Theory
Divergence

5. Stylistic Continuum
Learners develop capability for using
the L2 and this undelies all regular
language behaviour.

6. Careful Style
Evident when learners are consciuosly
attending to their choice of linguistic
forms, as when they need to be
correct.

7. Vernacular Style
Evident when learners are making
spontaneous choices of linguistic
forms as is likely in free conversation.

8. The Model’s Problems in
Tarone’s Theory
1.Learners are not always most
accurate in their careful style and least
accurate in their vernacular style.
2.The role of social factors remains
unclear.

9. In short, Tarone’s theory seems to relate
more to psycholinguistic rather than
social factors in variation.

10. Howard Giles’s
Accommodation Theory
Explain how a learners social group
influences
the
course
of
L2
acquisition.
The key idea is social accommodation

11.  Convergence process : When people
interact with each other they either try to
make their speech similar to that of their
adressee in order to emphasize social
cohesiveness.
 Divergence process : When people interact
with each other they either try to make it
different in order to emphasize their social
distinctiveness.

12. According to Giles’s theory, social factors
influence interlanguage development via
the impact they have on the attitudes that
determine the kinds of language use
learners engage in.

13. The Acculturation Model of
L2 acquisition
John
Schumann’s
acculturation
model : social factors determine the
amount of contact with the L2
individual learners experience and
thereby how successful they are in
learning.

14. The Model’s Problems in
Schumann’s Theory
1. It fails to acknowledge the factors like
‘integration pattern’ and ‘attitude’ are not
fixed and static but variable and dynamic
fluctuating in accordance with the learners
changing social experiences.
2. It fails to acknowledge that learners are not
just subject to social conditions but can
also become the subject of them.

15. Social Identity and
Investment in L2 Learning
Bonny Pierce’s view in relationship
between social context and L2
acquistition.
Language learners have complex
social identities that can only be
understood in terms of the power
relations that shape social structures.

16. The
learner’s
success
require
investment, something learners will
only make if they believe their efforts
will increase the value of their ‘cultural
capital’.

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