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What do we know when we know a language? TESOL Teacher Professional Development in Namibia May 2013

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What do we know when we know a language?. TESOL Teacher Professional Development in Namibia May 2013. Perspectives. Linguistic Social Psychological. Linguistic Perspective. Phonetics and Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics. Linguistic Perspective. Important concepts - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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What do we know when we know a language?TESOL Teacher Professional Development in NamibiaMay 2013

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Perspectives

LinguisticSocialPsychological

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Linguistic Perspective

Phonetics and PhonologyMorphologySyntaxSemanticsPragmatics

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Linguistic Perspective

Important concepts Universal grammar Linguistic competence Linguistic performance

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Linguistic Perspective

Universal Grammar (UG) The innate ability people are born with to learn

a language. All languages have similar properties with

limited parameters: Word order, parts of speech, displacement

All languages are rule-governed and are generally learned in the same way

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Linguistic Perspective

Linguistic competence: what speakers of a language know about the language

Linguistic performance: how speakers of a language use what they know

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Linguistic Perspective

The Monitor Model (Krashen) Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis Monitor Hypothesis Natural Order Hypothesis Input Hypothesis Affective Filter Hypothesis

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The Monitor Model

i+ 1Language Acquisition

Device

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Linguistic Perspective

Interlanguage (IL)

L1 L2

Restructuring/BackslidingFossilization

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Social Perspective Communicative competence Microsocial factors Macrosocial factors Language community Interaction hypothesis

Interpersonal intrapersonal

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) Scaffolding Acculturation Model

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Social Perspective

Communicative Competence:“what a speaker needs to know to communicate appropriately within a particular language community” (Saville-Troike, 2003)

Vocabulary + phonology + grammar + any other linguistic structure + rules re: what to say to whom and when and how…and if.

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Social Perspective

Microsocial factors Variability among a language community or

within a learner that is systematic and predictable I ate dinner v. I ate supper. Hi v. hello v. good morning

Macrosocial factors Features of the larger political setting, social

position, societal attitudes, values, ethnicity, gender, age

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Social Perspective

Language Community

A group of people who share knowledge of a common language at least to some extent

How many language communities do you belong to? How are they different? How are they similar?

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Social Perspective

Interaction Hypothesis The claim that modifications and collaborative efforts

which take place in social interaction facilitate SLA because they contribute to the accessibility of input for mental processing (Saville-Troike 2012, p. 190)

Modifications: Oral: high frequency phrases, pauses grammatical

junctures, slower speed, repetition, paraphrase, expansion, sentence completion

Written: academic texts include frequent organization markers, clear topic sentences, highlighting of key terms (synonyms + paraphrases), lists of main points, elaboration of specific points, visual aids, explicit summations at regular intervals, questions

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Social Perspective

Accommodation Theory: Speakers change their pronunciation and even

grammatical complexity to sound more like whomever they are talking to.

…so if teachers use the language they want their students to use….

Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky) The distance between current ability and

potential growth. In order to learn, the learner needs guidance. It is where learning happens.

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Social Perspective

TeacherZPD

Learner

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Social Perspective

Scaffolding Verbal guidance which an expert provides to help a

learner perform any specific task, or the verbal collaboration of peers to perform a task which would be too difficult for any one of them in individual performance

S: TakiT: What did Taki do?S: PencilT: What did Taki do with the pencil?S: Throw (makes a throwing motion)T: Taki, don’t throw pencils.

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Social Perspective

Acculturation Model Identifies group factors such as identity and

status which determine social and psychological distance between learner and target language populations.

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Psychological Perspective

Information Processing Controlled/Automatic Connectionism

Critical Period Hypothesis and AgeGenderCognitive StyleLearning Style, Learning Strategies

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Information Processing

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Critical Period Hypothesis

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Gender

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Cognitive Style Tolerance for Ambiguity Risk-taking Reflective Field dependence Visual Auditory Kinesthetic

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Learning Strategies Metacognitive: attempt to regulate learning by

planning and monitoring. Ex: pre-viewing, deciding in advance to attend to specific input…

Cognitive: make use of direct analysis or synthesis of linguistic material. Ex: repeating after a language model, translating, guessing meaning through inferencing

Social/affective: involve interaction with others. Ex: asking questions for clarification, asking for repetition, explanation or examples