LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Markedness, Noam Chomsky, Contrastive Analysis
15 Jan 2016
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This topic is of central importance both in the theoretical study of sla. The study of two languages in contrast occupied many researchers from the 1950s and 1960s onwards leading to the sub field of contrastive analysis (ca) Ca is an application of structural linguistics to sla, based on the following assumptions: from the first effects of interference. Structural linguistics emphasises the processes of segmenting and classifying the physical features of utterances, their surface structure" (chomsky), with little reference to their meaning. Structural linguistics had a strong influence on the audio-lingual teaching method. Ca has an intuitive appeal as teachers of a second language commonly observe errors made by their learners which seem to be attributable to negative transfer of learners" native language to the target language. Remember that in age and l2 learning we discovered that accent was the hardest feature of an l2 for adult learners to master.
