2. *
*It is a hypotheses that says that:
*Adults have two distinct and independent ways of
developing competence in a second language.
*The first way is language acquisition.
*The second way is by learning the language.
3. *
*It is a process similar to the way children develop
ability in their first language.
*It is is a subconscious process
*The result of language acquisition, acquired
competence, is also subconscious.
*It is also known as implicit learning, informal
learning, and natural learning.
4. *
• Conscious knowledge of a
second language.
• Knowing the rules.
• Being aware of the rules
• Being able to talk about the
rules.
• Exolicit learning
• KNOWING ABOUT A LANGUAGE
5. *
*Not just children acquire
*Adults can only learn
*The acquisition-learning
hypothesis claims,
however, that adults also
acquire.
*adults also acquire, that
the ability to "pick-up"
languages does not
disappear at puberty.
*can access the same
natural "language
acquisition device" that
children use
7. I goes to school every day.
Alter his or her conscious
mental representation of
the rule.
8. It doesn’t influence
acquisition to any great
extent.
As conclusion, parents
attend more the truth
value what the child is
saying rather than to
the form.
9.
10. *
Walt Disney comes on
Tuesday was corrected,
despite its syntactic
correctness, since Walt
Disney actually came on
television on Wednesday.
11. *
*It seems to be "truth value rather than syntactic
well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit
verbal reinforcement by parents
