This document discusses language acquisition, including first and second language acquisition. It defines language acquisition as the process of learning to perceive, comprehend, produce and use words and sentences to communicate. First language acquisition refers to acquiring one's native language from birth, while second language acquisition is learning additional languages after the first is established. The key differences are that first language acquisition is unconscious and occurs without instruction, while second language acquisition requires explicit instruction.

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6. What is Language Acquistion ?

7. Language acquisition is the process by which
humans acquire the capacity to perceive and
comprehend language, as well as to produce and
use words and sentences to communicate.

8. Language acquisition usually refers to first
language acquisition, which studies infants'
acquisition of their native language. This is
distinguished from second language
acquisition, which deals with the acquisition (in
both children and adults) of additional
languages.

9. Linguists and applied linguists used to divide
language acquisition into two categories:
First Language Second Language
Acquisition
Acquisition

11. 1- what is First Language Acquisition -
First Language Acquisition is a universal process
regardless of home language.
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12. First Language Acquisition
All humans (without exceptional physical or
disabilities) have an innate mental
language. Children capability to acquire
may acquire one or more first languages
For example,
children who grow up in an environment in
which only English is spoken and heard will
acquire only English as their first language

13. When does First Language Acquisition
occur?

14. •
Acquisition occurs passively and unconsciously
through implicit learning. In other words, children
do not need explicit instruction to acquire their
first language but rather seem to just "pick up"
language in the same way they learn to
eat, drink, and walk

15. Second language acquisition
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Second language acquisition assumes that A
second language learner has A good knowledge
about his/her first language before starting the
process of learning the elements of the second
language including its vocabulary, phonological
components, grammatical patterns, language
functions, structures, and writing rules .

16. As a mater of fact, knowing a first language affects
the process of second language acquisition in
two different ways. Some researchers believe
that second language acquisition is often
hindered by the knowledge of one's first languag

17. •
All humans have the ability to learn additional
languages although, just as with other areas of
study like math or science, some people are
better at learning second languages than others.
Older children and adults may learn one or more
second languages

18. What Is The Difference Between
Acquisition And Learning

19. As opposed to acquisition, learning occurs
actively and consciously through explicit
instruction and education. In other words, older
children and adults need explicit teaching to
learn their second languages. Language learning
requires explicit instruction in speaking and
hearing additional languages.

20. For example, while children who acquire English •
as their first language just seem unconsciously
and without instruction to "know" that most
adjectives precede nouns in English, those same
children as adults must be taught that most
adjectives follow nouns in Spanish

21. Differences between L1 and L2
Acquisition

22. Differences between L1 and L2
acquisition

24. Some Facts About Language
Acquisition

25. • 1-The child’s language is a system in its own
right rather than being a small fragment of the
adult system

26. • 2-The learning of a first language has many
sides and is not simply a matter of learning
syntax and vocabulary

27. • 3-The use of the first language goes hand in
hand with the child’s needs and interests

28. • 4-Wherever there is a relationship between
cognition and language development, language
depends on cognition

29. • 5-The child’s use and learning of language is
partly determined by mental capacity

30. 6-There are particular stages of development
through which all children progress, even if the rate
of progression varies

31. • 7-The child learns to adapt its language use to
particular situations
• 8-Adults adapt their speech in systematic ways
when talking to children