SLA mechanisms BY THE END OF THE SESSION

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SLA mechanisms BY THE END OF THE SESSION, STUDENTS WILL BE AWARE OF: INPUT, INTAKE AND OUTPUT; STAGES OF SLA MECHANISMS

How do we acquire meaning: the bottleneck hypothesis In this video, Roumyana Slabakova begins to consider what is hard and what is easy in learning a second language. She starts out by considering the more problematic aspects of language learning and she suggests her own hypothesis - ‘the bottleneck hypothesis’ for helping us to understand how humans acquire meaning in language. What do you think about this hypothesis? How far does it match your experience of learning other languages?

Input Language that a learner hears (reads) that has some kind of communicative intent This input must be processed (made comprehensible) for acquisition to take place =>Input => processing=>intake

Input processing: Principles Learners process input for meaning before anything else Process content words Process meaningful grammatical forms Learners process content/propositional message with minimal cost to attentional sources

Output Language that has communicative purpose Language that learners produce to express some kind of meaning 2 important (related) elements of output Fluency: speed and accuracy Automatization: speaking w/out much conscious effort

Classrooms as communities of practice In this video, Professor Ros Mitchell talks about how classrooms can be seen as small, social communities of practice. The ‘social’ aspect of language learning is an increasingly important part of research into the effective learning of language. How does the social community in the classroom work effectively? What kinds of roles do the participants play in this learning community?

Do you enjoy learning languages in the classroom? How important is the support of your colleagues/fellow classmates in your learning?

Home assignment: Skim the article by R. Slabakova and say what the Universal Grammar, the Functional Lexicon, the Universal Semantics, the Universal Pragmatics are. Explain the rationale of the Bottleneck Hypothesis. What does saying “no pain, no gain” stand for in the article? Find the relevant definitions of the terms input, intake, output, SLA mechanisms, write them into your glossary. Give the feedback on the session

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