1) The document discusses principles for second language acquisition and defines language proficiency as performing a skill with expert correctness and facility. 2) It examines different theories of language proficiency from Chomsky to Hymes, focusing on grammar competence versus communicative competence. 3) The document seeks to understand how to help students in a classroom setting become proficient in a second language and what characterizes an optimal learning environment.

1. METHODS AND APPROACHES OF A SECOND LANGUAGE Unit 1. Principles for a Second Language Acquisition Text: First Principles Professor: César Hernández April, 2010 MAESTRIA EN EDUCACION BILINGÜE MEB

2. First Principles How can we help students learning a second language in a classroom setting become proficient in that language? What does proficient means? How do people become proficient in a language? What characterizes a classroom environment in which opportunities to become proficient are maximized?

3. Proficient as performing in a given art, skill or branch of knowledge with expert correctness and facility. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language) Defining Language Proficiency Chomsky Campbell and Wales Hymes Idealized native speaker competence. Performance. Linguistic Theory. Chomsky´s idea not include: Utterance and Sociocultural Significance. Proposed the Communicative Performance and Competence.

4. For Grammar Competence to… Communicative Competence Chomsky Hymes Munby Higgs and Clifford Savignon Campbell and Wales Canale and Swain

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