The document discusses how learners acquire a new language. It mentions that a learner's motives, needs, attitudes, and emotional states filter what they hear from the language, affecting the quality of their acquisition. This filtering determines what language models and parts of the language the learner focuses on first, as well as how quickly and for how long they acquire the language. The filtering also guides the overall acquisition process by limiting what can be learned and rejecting material that does not fit the learner's emerging language system.

1. INTERNAL PROCESSING
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica- Centro Internacional de Postgrados
Maestría Ciencias de la Educación con énfasis en la Enseñanza del Inglés-
Language Acquisition Course- Licda. Melissa González Castro

2. How do you acquire a language?

3. Learner’s motives, needs, attitudes
and emotional states filter what
they hear affecting the quality of
language.
• integrative motivation
• instrumental motivation
• social group identification motive

4. It guides the acquisition process,
limiting what can be learned and
rejecting material which does not
fit yet into the emerging system.
• Transitional constructions
• Errors in speech
• Order of structures

5. Learners consciously formulate
sentences and to correct or edit
their speech and writing. Factors:
• Learner’s age
• Verbal task being performed
• Learner’s personality

6. Emotional stages
Filtering determines:
• Target language models the learner selects
• Parts of the new language the learner attends
to first
• When language efforts cease
• How fast the learner acquire the language

7. Emotional stages
Filtering determines:
• Target language models the learner selects
• Parts of the new language the learner attends
to first
• When language efforts cease
• How fast the learner acquire the language