ASPECTS OF CONSIDERATION IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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2. ASPECTS OF CONSIDERATION IN SECOND
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
 NEUROBIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION:
It refers to the function of the brain in the process of acquisition.
The brain is divided into two hemispheres, called the left and right
hemispheres. Each hemisphere provides a different set of functions,
behaviors, and controls. The right hemisphere is often called the
creative side of the brain, while the left hemisphere is the logical or
analytical side of the brain.
The right side of the brain is more visual oriented, involved in
activities such as visual imagery and face recognition. The right side
tends to view information as a whole, to tend to process
information more intuitively or randomly.
Left brain students are better at writing and spelling, since it
involves secuencing and organizing of letters and words. Right
brain students requiere more time to write a paper, and requiere
more revisions to get it to say what they want to say.
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3. ASPECTS OF CONSIDERATION IN SECOND LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION
 COGNITIVE CONSIDERATION:
Human cognitive develops rapidly through the first sixteen years of life
and less rapidly thereafter.
Some cognitive changes are critical; others are more gradual and
difficult to detect. Jean Piaget and Inhelder outlined the course of
intellectual development in a child through various stages:
• Sensorimotor stage (birth to two)
• Prcoperational stage (ages seven to sixteen)
• Operational stage (ages seven to sixteen)
• Concrete operational stage (ages seven to eleven)
• Formal operational stage (ages eleven to sixteen)
A critical stage for a consieration of the effects of age on second language
acquistion appears to occur, in Piaget´s outline, at puberty (age eleven in his
model).
A person becomes capable of abstraction, of formal thinking which trascends
concrete experience and direct perception Cognitively, a strong argument can be
made for a critical period of language acquisition and the concrete formal stage
transition.
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4. ASPECTS OF CONSIDERATION IN SECOND
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
• AFFECTIVE CONSIDERATION
Human beings are emotional creatures. At the heart of all
thought and action is emotion. As intelletual, as we would like
to think we are inlfuenced by our emotions, it is only logical,
then, to look at the affective (emotional) domain for some of
the most significant answers to the problems of contrasting the
differences between first and second language acquisition.
The affective domain includes many factors: empathy, self-
esteen, extroverstion, inhibition, anxiety, attitudes- the list
could go on. Some of these may be seen at first rather far
removed from language learning.
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5. ASPECTS OF CONSIDERATION IN SECOND
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
 LINGUISTIC CONSIDERATION:
We have go for looked at learners themselves and considered a number of
different issues in age and acquisition Now we turn to some issues that
center on the subject matter itself: language. What are some of the
linguistic considerations in age related questions about SLA? A growing
number of research studies are now available to shed somelight on the
linguistic processes of second language learning and how those processes
differ between children and adults:
Bilingualism: that children learning two language simultaneously acquire
them by the use of similar strategies.
Interference between first and second language: Children and adults
has focused on the interfering effects of the first and second language
learning in young children are in general similar to the first language
processes.
Interference in adults: Adult second language linguistic processes are
more vulnerable to the effect of the first language on the second.
Other of acquisition: This is about the importance of factors other than
first language interference was taken in a series of research studies. They
claimed that claimed that children learning a second language use a
creative construction process, just as they do in their first language.
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6. ASPECTS OF CONSIDERATION IN SECOND
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
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