Second language acquisition

1. NEUROLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
 Study of brain, Schuman in 1992.
 Some fuctions are lateralized to left or right side.
Language functions in left side of brain.
 Lateralization is a process until puberty. Where
crithical period appears.
 Pronunciation will be located in earky maturaiton
while accents and semantic relations.
 Right hemisphere will participate in strategies of
acquisition, guessing the meanings.

2. COGNITIVE CONSIDERARTIONS
•Stages in which develops a human in learning a
language: sensorimotor stage, preoperatinal stage,
operational stage concrete and Formal stage, the last
two have relevance because adult people are awere of
the concrete language acquisition and formal stage.
•Piaget notion of Equilibration that is period of interior
organizatin of knowledge from stages of doubts.
•Rote activities will be used in short-term memory
while meaning communication will be superior in
context of learning.

3. AFFECTIVE CONSIDERATIONS
 Human beings live by emotion.
 Include different feelings suc as: empathy, self-esteem,
extroversion, inhibition, imitation, anxiety….
 Alexander Guiora proposes the laguage ego, that a
person develop identity in reference of a language
spoken. So identity will be confirmed, shaped and
reshaped.
 Ego language clings to the security of native language.
But we can develop a Second identity.
 People should overcome inhibitions in SLA.
 Attitude to second language can be reinforced or
affected in negative way.
 Peer presure will provide necessity of learning a
language.

4. LINGUISTIC CONSIDERATIONS
 Bilingualism, children will success in SLA if they
distinguish the differnt context in each language.
They coordinate bilingualism.
 Interference between First and second language in
which similar strategies are aplied for both
languages.
 Interference in adult, first language intervent as
facilitator to discover some rules.
 Order of acquisition, children learn by using a
creative construction process where indicate the
generalizability of morpheme acquisition order