The document discusses several theories of language acquisition and second language learning. It addresses the behaviorist view that language is acquired through conditioning as well as the nativist view that humans are born with an innate language acquisition device. It also discusses factors that affect second language acquisition like age, motivation, and quality of instruction. Finally, it mentions different components of communicative competence involved in language learning like grammatical, discourse, and sociolinguistic competence.

2.  LANGUAGE: Is a complex, specialized
skill which develops in the child
spontaneously.
 LEARNING:
 Is acquisition or getting
 Is retention of information or skill
 Is a change of behavior

3.  BEHAVIORISTIC: Language acquire is
accordance with the habit of learning
by operant conditioning.
 NATIVIST: Humans have a language
acquisition device, the child already
have a natural language in him since
birth.

4.  CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS: Biological
timetable in language acquisition.
 There are some consideration that affect
the second language learning such as:
regional accents of origins, affective.

5.  There are eight types of learning
(according Gagne)
 learning cues
 Stimulus response learning coupling
 Verbal association
 Discrimination
 Double
 Learning concept
 Learning principles
 Problem solving

6.  Style: Refers to the biases or preferences
that are consistent and somewhat
durable in within one.
 Strategies: Special method to solve a
problem or to convey something.
 Learning styles: reflective and impulse

7.  Two hemisphere reproduce information
such as sensory observations.
 Left and right brain work differently but
they are a team.
 Difference in the process of learning a
second language depend of the brain
dominance.

8.  People learn by a different ways.
 Learning strategies are divides in three
categories.
 META-CONGNITIVE
 CONGNITIVE
 SOCIO-EFFECTIVE

9.  FACTORS THAT AFFECT SLA:
 Age
 Access to the language
 Motivation
 First language development
 Cognitive ability
 Quality of instruction

10.  Is necessary understand the social and
cultural factors of the students, because
these would affect the process of SLA.
 Peter Adler said “ Cultural shock, while
surely processing manifestation of crisis,
can also be view more positively as a
profound cross-cultural leaning
experience.

11.  Grammatical competence
 Discourse competence
 Sociolinguistic competence
 Strategic competence

12.  CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS: People do not
forget the past experience of action
learning.
 ERROR ANALYSIS: Mistakes made when
learning the language will bring up a
feedback for how it should be a binary.
 Sources of error: Intralingual transfer,
interlingual transfer

13.  Grammatical competence: Is a aspect
of communicative competence that
encompasses knowledge of lexical
items.

14.  Sociolinguistic: Is the knowledge of the
sociocultural rules of language and of
discourse.
 DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: The analysis of the
relationship between forms and
functions of language.

15.  A theory of SLA is really an interrelated
series of hypothesis and/or claims abut
of how people become proficiency in a
second language.