LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Positron Emission Tomography, Communicative Competence, The Mother Tongue

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

Document Summary

Focus on language pedagogic in 1950s and. The shift from the teacher to the learner in. The shift from behaviourism to cognitive psychology, focusing on children"s internal grammars. The application of some knowledge in first language acquisition to second language acquisition (sla) or second language learning (sll). Sla learners are subjects to an influence of the first language acquisition. 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. In other words, to use sl in a way that it is appropriate to the situation and context, incl. cultural and social (examples: different styles, pragmatic meanings relevant for this particular culture, etc. Illocutionary competence refers to the ability to comprehend a speaker"s intent (ex. Analysis of mistakes that are subjects of transfer from the first language (pp.