What are the stages of first language acquisition?
• We are focusing on the English acquisition process Pre-linguistic Stages Linguistic Crying - Birth-2 months -any involuntary vocal production Cooing - 2 – 5 months - primarily vowel like sounds [i], [u] Babbling - 6 -12 months - primarily syllable like sounds (ba-baba; ma-ma-ma) Stage
Is there a natural order to language acquisition?
When their reading skills became fluent, the process of WRITING evolved. That is the natural order of language acquisition (Krashen) and we all went through the same stages: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, in that order. At PCIS, we understand that the acquisition of a second language must follow the same natural order.
What is the theory of second language acquisition?
second language acquisition. Second language acquisition (SLA) is concerned with how individuals acquire a language other than their native language. Saville-Troike (2012) defined second language acquisition as the study of individuals or groups who are learning a language subsequent to learning their first one as young children.
THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION