This document discusses language acquisition and the different ways languages can be learned. It defines key terms like native language, mother tongue, and provides examples of how a family may acquire both a native and mother tongue. The document also summarizes different theories on how children and adults acquire language, including unconsciously for children but more consciously for adults through formal language learning. Sources on language acquisition theories and definitions are cited.

1. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
• Raquel Caiza
• María Fernanda Navarrete
• Melanny Pruna
• Tania Rodriguez
• Fernanda Torres
• Mayta Vazques
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF
ECUADOR

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. NATIVE LANGUAGE
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

20. 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.

21.  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

22. 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