This document discusses how adults approach second language learning through acquisition and learning. It finds that adults acquire a second language naturally through interaction, while also learning it formally by studying structures and forms. A survey of participants found that most agree they use their first language when learning a second language, but performance on grammatical sentences was only correctly answered 30% of the time, with most answers showing transfer from the first language or being incorrect. The conclusion is that ignoring an adult learner's first language in the classroom teaches less efficiently.

1. GRAMMATICAL INFLUENCE
OF SPANISH IN ADULT EFL
LEARNERS
Mayra Vanegas

2. O How do adults approach language
learning?
O Acquisition
O Learning
O Results
O Graphs
O Conclusions

3. HOW DO ADULTS APPROACH
LANGUAGE LEARNING?
ACQUISITION
&
LEARNING
ENGAGE L2 LEARNING

4. ACQUISITION
O Natural and an unconscious process
O Interaction with the L2
O Comprehensible input
O use the language communicatively

5. LEARNING
O It is a conscious way
O Requires a formal study
O Structures and forms
O Target language

6. O Acquired Language (AL)
Communication in the L2
WHILE
O Learned Language (LL)
“monitor or editor”
improve and change “AL”

7. RESULTS
O SURVEY
O Participants
O Multiple Choice Questions
O Seven sentences

8. Questions
40%
Agree
Disagree
60%

9. Sentences
21%
TRANSFER
49%
INCORRECT
CORRECT
30%

10. CONCLUSION

11. LASTING THOUGHT
“To ignore the mother tongue
in a monolingual classroom is
almost certainly to teach with
less than maximum efficiency”

13. THANKS!