LING 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cognitive Psychology, Phonetics, Markedness
18 Mar 2016
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What are some challenges: limited environment, obsessed with getting it right, but there are things that inhibit the ability to learn, lack of free time. What individual factors play a role: general aptitude for learning a language; a special/stronger ability for learning a second language than others thomson believes it does not play a big role, experience plays a bigger role. What is possible: inhibited by time. Does context matter? (experience: adults do not have as much time as children to learn a second language as children do. What is it: the formal study of how people learn/acquire a second language. How is it related to applied linguistics: in order to understand sla, you need a basic understanding of phonetics, morphology, and such on, sub-discipline of applied linguistics. Why do some take exception to the term: some are offended when you say teaching english as a second. Language" when what it really is, is teaching english as a.
