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Language Acquisition Principles Paper a) Select and read a recent (since 2005) professional journal article that pertains to language acquisition principles for ELL students. b) Write a 500-750 word essay in which you summarize the article and then address the following: i) State how teachers might apply information from the article to their personal situation. ii) React to the article through a synthesis of your opinion on the article's content. c) Use appropriate SEI terminology throughout the paper. Use the Walqui article to describe how each factor affects second language acquisition and how teachers can support the acquisition of a second language.
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Preview: ... with acquisition (in both children and adults) of additional languages. The capacity to acquire and use language is a key aspect that distinguishes humans from other organisms. While many forms of animal communication exist, they have a limited range of nonsyntactically structured vocabulary tokens that lack cross cultural variation between groups.[1] A major concern in understanding language acquisition is how these capacities are picked up by infants from what appears to be very little input. A range of theories of language acquisition has been created in order to explain this apparent problem including innatism in which a child is born prepared in some manner with these capacities, as opposed to the other theories in which language is simply learned. Formal Principles of Language Acquisition The question of language learnability is central to modern linguistics. Yet, despite its importance, research into the problems of language learnability has rarely gone beyond the informal, commonsense intuitions that currently prevail among linguists and psychologists. By focusing their inquiry on formal language learnability theory—the interface of formal mathematical linguistics, linguistic theory and cognitive psychology—the authors of this book have developed a rigorous and unified theory that opens the study of language learnability to discoveries about the mechanisms of language acquisition in human beings. Their research has important implications for linguistic theory, child language research, and the philosophy of language. Formal Principles of Language Acquisition develops rigorous mathematical methods for demonstrating the learnability of classes of grammars. It adapts the well-developed theories of transformational grammar to establish psychological motivation for a set of formal constraints on grammars sufficient for learnability. In addition, the research deals with such matters as the complex interaction between the mechanism of language learning and the learning environment, the empirical adequacy of the learnability constraints, feasibility and attainability of classes of grammars, the role of semantics in language learnability, and the adequacy of transformational grammars as models of human linguistic competence. This first serious and extended development of a formal and precise theory of language learnability will interest researchers in psychology and linguistics, and is recommended for use in graduate courses in language acquisition, linguistic theory, psycholinguistics, and mathematical linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary courses that deal with language learning, use, and philosophy. General language learning principles    Principles about language in general    Language is systematic    Languages have a sound system    In some languages the tone system carries as much meaning as consonants and vowels    Languages have a grammatical system    Languages have a lexical system    There is seldom a one-to-one correspondence between words in two languages    Language is used in discourses    People sometimes speak or write in monologues    Language is used interactively in conversation    Language is meaningful    Language ...
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