Second Language Acquisition Chapter 17,By Yule

1. What is the difference between the terms ACQUISITION and LEARNING?

• ACQUISITION: Development of ability in language.

            It naturally develops in communicative situations.

• LEARNING: Conscious process of accumulating knowledge of a Language

2. Why is motivation important for L2 students?

If students feel motivated they will want to learn more and more, even if they make mistakes, because the motivation will show to them the necessity of realize what they have to improve.

3. Why might foreign talk be beneficial?

Because the message will be easier to understand and if a student feels that can understand what the teacher is talking about he/she will want to learn more, because of the motivation that this will bring to him/her.   

4. What is communicative competence?

Is the way that we use to produce speech, we find three concepts of this which are:

·         Grammatical competence; it is related to the accurate use of words and structures in the L2.

·         Sociolinguistic competence: It enables the learner to discriminate the social context.

·         Strategic competence: This is the ability to organize a message effectively and to compensate, via strategies, for any difficulties.

5. What is Positive and Negative Transfer?

·         Positive transfer: when some concepts from L1 and L2 have similar characteristics, the learner may be able to benefit from the positive transfer of L1 Knowledge. For example; if a student uses the word doctor, even if he/she does not know that this words is equal in Spanish and English.   

·         Negative transfer (or interference): L1 and L2 are too different, and it is not effective for L2 communication. For example; if a student says this is my carpet, referring to say folder, in Spanish, but the similitude between both languages make the student do this negative transfer.  

Put on the box, the words with the correct information

GTM	Audiolingual method	Communicative competence
grammatical rules	spoken language	creation of communicative experience

GTM / Communicative competence / Audiolingual method / grammatical rules / creation of communicative experience / spoken language