This document discusses language acquisition and provides definitions and examples. It begins by defining language acquisition as the process of learning a second language other than one's native tongue. It then provides background on the different theories of how children and adults acquire language. Specifically, it notes that children acquire language quickly without effort, while adults rely more on formal language learning. The document provides various sources that discuss theories of language acquisition and gives examples to illustrate the concepts.

1. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
• Raquel Caiza
• María Fernanda Navarrete
• Melanny Pruna
• Tania Rodriguez
• Fernando Torres
• Mayta Vazques
Universidad Central del Ecuador
Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Ciencias
de la Educación

2. Language
Source: language
development

3. Acquisition
the act or process of achieving mastery
of a language or a
linguistic rule or element:
Source: Dictionary
reference

4. Language Acquisition
Refers to the process by which a person
learns a "foreign" language--that is, a
language other than his or her mother
tongue.
Source: Grammar about

6. SOURCE: (SKINNER,
1957)

7. SOURCE:(CHOMSKY, 1965)

8. SOURCES: (CAMBRIDGE, 2011)
(ROWLAND & & Noble, 2010 )

9. IT REFERS TO THE MOTHER LANGUAGE
IT IS THE LANGUAGE THAT THE
PARENTS SPEAK IN THEIR HOUSE
MOTHER TONGUE
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10. IT IS THE FIRST LANGUAGE
ACQUIRED INTO THE SOCIETY
IT DEPENDS ON THE COUNTRY
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11. EXAMPLE:
A family of immigrants from Mexico to the
United States.
In their house and with family/friends they
may use Spanish. But at school,
restaurants, stores, etc they would use
English. In this case, the NATIVE
LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH and the
MOTHER TONGUE IS SPANISH.
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12. How do children
acquire a language?
Children acquire language
quickly, easily, and without
effort or formal teaching. It
happens automatically.
(Birner, B; LSA)

13. (Salah, A; 2013)

14. How do adults acquire a language?

15. Eslbase. znum16

16. PASHA, S. (2014) [Image]. Recovered from: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/BM8/eao31-

17. According to the main
ideas of Krashen "there
are two independent
systems of second
language performance:
the acquired system
and learning system.“
(Krashen, 2009, p. 10)

18. LANGUAGE
LEARNING
Is a subconscious proc
Conscious
knowledge of a
second
language.
(Krashen, 2009, p. 10)

19. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
We as a students join with others creating groups using some random
method. The advantage of this approach is that it’s a good option to
socialize or share ideas with our partners. The method is also a good
one to use if you want make a learning environment. However, it’s not
a good method if you want students working in groups where there is
a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and knowledge, but we
could establish a creative and dynamic relationship between us to
make a good job.
DIFFICULT TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH
It is a kind of difficult , because it is depend of the society that we
grow, cultural aspects, in our cases everybody speak in our tongue
mother that we learnt when we were child and when we are young
or old, the language could be difficult to learn.

20.  Betty Birner; LSA, Linguistic Society of America, s.f.
 http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/faq-how-do-we-
learn-language
 Amal Salah; Child and language develop, 2013
 http://www.slideshare.net/LamaAlbabtain/ss-18285383
 Stackexchange,2015
http://english.stackexchange.com/posts/146517/revisios
 Language develoment: language definition,
http://languagedevelopment.tripod.com/id2.html
 Dictionary.com: acquisition definition (linguistic),
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/acquisition
NETGRAPHY

21. About education: language acquisition definition,
http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/languageacquisitionterm.htm
CAMBRIDGE, B., & LIEVEN, E.V.M. (2011). Language Acquisition:
Contrasting theoretical approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Retrieved from: www.simplypsychology.org/language.html
CHOMSKY, N. (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. MIT Press.
ROWLAND, C. F.; & Noble, C. L. (2010). The role of syntactic structure in
children’s sentence comprehension: Evidence from the dative. Language
Learning and Development, 7(1): 55-75.
SKINNER, B.F. (1957). Verbal Behavior. Acton, MA: Copley Publishing
Group.
http://www.eslbase.com/teaching/language-acquisition-adult-learners
https://www.um.es/tonosdigital/znum16/secciones/estudios--10-
Ensenanza.htm