LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Psychology, Behaviorism, Elizabeth Bates

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Yourie Pankrats

Document Summary

The study of second language acquisition: focus on language pedagogic in 1950s and. 1960s: the shift from the teacher to the learner in. 2: interlanguage (il) grammar is influenced by both: the first and the second language, hence features of both (examples), the target of il is actual proficiency or communicative competence. : can you open the door, please: analysis of mistakes that are subjects of transfer from the first language (pp. 3: more than half the world"s population is bilingual. French immersion programs: minority-language children (one language at home) often have difficulty in majority-language schools (english l-ge) p. 391. 4: french immersion program: 1977: 37,835 students; 2005: 301,000 students, french is the medium communication. All instruction is in french, even when the content is history or music, etc: no native speakers of french in these schools, by grade six, on average students from french immersion schools outperform their monolingual.