Children learn language through listening to adults and trying to communicate. By age 1 they can say single words, by age 2 they can say simple phrases, and by age 6 they have a vocabulary of around 2,500 words. They learn the sounds, words, and basic rules of their native language through positive reinforcement from parents as they imitate speech. Learning a second language is easier in early childhood when immersed with native speakers rather than in a classroom. While taking classes helps focus learning, immersion in a culture allows more natural psychological development similar to a child's first language acquisition.

1. LEARNING LANGUAG
E

2. LANGUAGE
 The most important component of
culture
Transmitted orally
Oral literature
Oral history
Folktales
Ballad
Songs

3. How children actually learn a language?
 They have a genetic propensity to
learn a language.
 They do it by listening and trying
to communicate with adults.
 They are able to learn the necessary
phonemes,morphemes, and syntax.

4.  By age one
Eat
 By about age two
«Mom bye-bye»
«More milk»
 By six years old
Mom
More
2,500 morphemes
Early stages
They start by Creating
Vocabulary and grammar
largely of their own
construction and simple
speech.

5. • Parents often encourage this "baby talk"
by imitating it =Positive reinforcement
• Children imitate the phonemes.
•
They begin to learn grammar by
imitation as well.

6. • Children begin to learn standard grammar
• They learn a general rule and use it in
all situations.
EXAMPLE
The past tense of 97% English verbs is indicate
by adding the suffix d or ed
REGULAR
HATED
REPEATED
IRREGULAR VERBS
GIVED
EATED

7. Becoming Multilingual
Learning a second or third language
 Easier in early childhood than later.
 By constant contact with native speakers .
It is superior to taking foreign language
classes .

8. Taking foreign classes forces you to
concentrate on it.
 You are inmerse in the culture and learn
it simultaneosly = phychological Stressful
 Young children learn their native language
in «just this way»
Surrounded by parents who essentialy speak a foreign tone

9.  Learning a second language can be
affected by the patterns of the first
language.
Linguistic interference
Accent
Grammar
Grammatical Rules

10. “In or at this moment"
NOW
«En este momento»
The literal translation
 Some idioms do not make literal sense
 His nose is
running and his
feet smell.

11.  People tend to perform mental tasks
with the language in which they
learned them.
Example:
Some bilingual french Alsatians:
 A second language learned as adults
are often quickly forgotten if not
used regularly.