DLS 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Input Hypothesis, Total Physical Response, Natural Approach

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Second-Language Teaching
• Course: DLS 1100
• Professor: Sima Paribakht

Document Summary

Critical period: a biologically determined period of life when language can be acquired more easily. As brain matures, certain functions assigned to left/right hemispheres of brain. Slow process beginning at age 2, completed at puberty. Brain plasticity before puberty causes enables to acquire l1 + l2. This makes it difficult to become fluent in l2. Right: active during early learning stages, involved in processing pragmatic part of language use. So(cid:272)io(cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al pe(cid:396)iod (cid:894)t s(cid:272)o(cid:448)el(cid:895): de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) (cid:271)o(cid:374)di(cid:374)g a(cid:272)(cid:272)e(cid:374)t at pu(cid:271)e(cid:396)t(cid:455) e(cid:374)a(cid:271)les spe(cid:272)ies to . Attrack mates of their own kind to maintain species. Foreign accents after puberty is not necessary for preservation of species; shows ability to be articulate apes. Learning certain aspects optimally at different ages: lower order processes (pronunciation) dependent on early-maturing brain; higher order (semantic relations) dependent on late maturing neural circuits. Research on acquiring authentic control of phonology of foreign language supported critical period ending at puberty (accent.