ALDS 2203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Master Sergeant, Pragmatics, Longitudinal Study

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
• Course: ALDS 2203
• Professor: Trudy O' Brien

Document Summary

Alds 2203 communicative competence & error analysis. Summary of l1 vs. l2 processes of language acquisition: & sla both have systematic & predictable stages, or sequences, of acqtn: e. g. , gram. morph. , negation, question formation & relative clauses. Learners don"t leave 1 stage completely before moving on to next. More like increase in frequency of appearance of more highly acquired element. Learners in stress or dealing w/ complexity of context may slip back into previous stage type. Learners who pass through natural acqtn. contexts & those who learn in school (grammar-focused) setting tend to move through same developmental sequences & make same types of errors. 1st study in english by roger brown in late 60s & early 70s. Results of 1st language order of acquisition studies: Sequence = overall development profile (universal; product of process of creative construction) Some research suggests that all learners pass through 4 stages: basic syntax (invariant word order, variant word order, morphological development, complex sentence structure.