PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Language Acquisition Device, Explicit Knowledge, Reinforcement
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Introduction iv + v: differences between language acquisition and language learning, language acquisition. Inductive learning of regularities: natural settings, socio-cultural context, contact with native speakers, time pressure on production, undirected, not institutionalized, language ability, language learning. Receiving positive reinforcement they continue to imitate/practice. But critic: older learners may advance faster in view of areas such as grammar. Because greater competences in abstract thinking, metalingustic awareness: younger learners have motor organs that are still able to develop and learn new sounds. Better pronounciation: cognitivism, existing knowledge plays a crucial role for the acquisition of new knowledge, new knowledge: not simply added but integrated into existing structures. Implication: only acquire knowledge if new information can be linked to what we already know. Irritation and disorder = prerequisites for learning: assimilation and accomodation = cognitive processes which influence, direkt, control the construction of knowledge accomodation more difficult, social context/interaction plays an important role for construction/acquisition of knowledge, teacher/instructor:
