1. Theories of the Second Language Acquisition

Not only to know grammar rules but also when and where to use sentences.

Communicative competence:

1. Grammar and vocabulary

2. Rules of speaking (how to begin and end the conversation)

3. Knowing how to use respond to different types of speech acts (requests, apologies, thanks)

4. Knowing how to use language appropriately

We have to know the following:

1. Setting - Where we use the language

2. Participants - level of formality

3. Purpose - what is the speaker going to do

4. Channel - face to face/skype/phone

5. Topic - what are we talking about

THE ACCULTURATION MODEL

Acculturation - process of being adopted to the new culture.

SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE BY SCHUMAN

Social distance - The result of the number of factors which allows the learner to contact with target language people

Psychological distance - The result of various affected factors which affect individual learner (language shock, motivation, egal boundaries)

Language shock - situation when you feel lost while using foreign language

Social factors:

1. Assimilation - reject everything about motherland

2. Preservation - reject everything about TLC and preserve your national identity

3. Adaptation - Maintain some of yours and TLC identity

GOOD LANGUAGE SITUATION:

1. Both groups TL and L2 view each other as equal

2. Both groups desire that the L2 group will assimilate:

3. Both groups expect that L2 group will share social facilities with TL

4. L2 is small and not very cohesive

5. TL culture is similar to L2 culture

6. Both groups have a positive attitude to each other

7. L2 group expects to stay in TL country for a quite long time

PIDGINIZATION:

1. Using simple words

2. No native speakers

3. Limited vocabulary

4. It develops when we do not share any of language

MONITOR MODEL:

1. The acquisition - learning hypothesis

1. Acquisition subconscious process (you focus on meaning, not form)

2. Learning - conscious study

2. Natural order hypothesis

1. Some structures are acquired before another

3. Monitor hypothesis

Self-correcting.

1. Sufficient time

2. Focus on form and meaning

3. Knowing the rules

4. The input hypothesis:

1. Input - what we hear

2. Intake - what we remember from input

3. Output - what we produce

5. The affective filter hypothesis - there must be stress-free environment

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