This document discusses language acquisition and language learning. It notes that language acquisition is a subconscious process where children absorb their first language through natural interaction without conscious awareness of grammar rules. Language learning refers to studying a language in a formal educational setting, with direct instruction in the rules of the language. The key difference is that acquisition relies on natural communication while learning involves more explicit explanation of grammar.

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English Pedagogy

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English Pedagogy
Language Acquisition and Language Learning
Two types of subjects are taught in any classroom situation and
these are:-
 Knowledge Subjects:- for example- History, General
Knowledge and Economics etc.
 Skill Subjects:- for example- English and Other Languages,
Music, Swimming etc, which are based on the theory of how to
do, how to use, how to learn, and how to teach.

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English Pedagogy
English language being one of the skill subject, aims at
achieving the teaching of the following four skills or the
language components:-
1. L- Listening
2. S- Speaking
3. R- Reading
4. W- Writing

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What is Language Acquisition ?
Children acquire language through a subconscious process during
which they are unaware of grammatical rules.
This happens is specially when they acquire their first language(s)
They need a source of natural communication in order to acquire a
language, which is usually the mother, the father or the caregiver.

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This language acquisition does not involve learning grammatical
rules or structures.the learner needs a source of natural
communication. The emphasis is on the text of the communication
and not on the grammatical form.
Children acquire their mother tongue through interaction with their
parents and the environments that surrounds them. As experts
suggest, there is an innate capacity in every human being to acquire
language.

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Children usually acquire language in a naturalistic, informal,
subconscious way.
During their infancy and childhood, they are mostly unaware of
grammar rules and ‘simply’ need a source of communication in order
to acquire that language.
We do not teach our children their first language(s), we simply
interact with them. We do not explain grammar rules while speaking.
We listen, repeat, induce meaning, interact, etc. This all happens in
a natural way. This is called language acquisition.

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Stages of Language Acquisition
• Early Vocalisations (Crying, Cooing, and babbling)
• The holophrastic stage (Single word)
• Two word Stage
• The first sentences or telegraphic stage (Accumulating words
together).
• What is language learning?

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Language learning, as opposed to language acquisition, is the
learning of a language in a more formal setting, usually with direct
instruction in the rules of language.
Learning requires a conscious and deliberate effort from the part of
the child/student and the educator uses formal teaching
methodologies to teach that language and facilitate the understanding
of its rules.

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 Learning a language involves more explanation of grammar rules
and less natural communication than language acquisition.
 Language learning is often used to talk about the learning of a
second language.
 When we learn all language we have a deductive approach to the
intonation, phonology, morphology, syntax and the basic knowledge of
grammar.
 Student have conscious knowledge of the new language and they
can talk about that language.

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