UNIT 10: EXPOSURE AND FOCUS ON FORM

EXPOSURE AND FOCUS ON FORM

This chapter let me know how important the exposure is, 

“Research shows that an infant's brain comes pre-wired to learn language, and children begin to build their language skills from birth, using the sounds of the speech they are exposed to.  They can actually differentiate between different languages long before they can vocalize them themselves, and there seems to be no limit to the number of languages a young child can acquire”. Babies start to vocalize words so that is the way how the infants began to produce the language. It does not matter if they make a lot of errors. Parents are like scaffolding, they must guide them with their use of language. When children start to talk they can repeat words, so they can restore in their mind, later they can produce it. They need to listen amount of words from their relatives. From the early age they should develop their native language mostly perfect.  Also, for adults and young learners or people who want to learn foreign language is by exposure, it helps students play with the language. They can pick the language up from the environment; they can learn it like their first language (L1) mother tongue. There are different ways that students or children learn the language. First, interaction is a good tool to acquire the language. Second, they must have time to interact, discussion, debates, paraphrase and role plays are good activities for exposure. It also helps learners to focus on form of language. In conclusion, language has a variety of features for acquiring for infants and students of the higher level.

References

Musiclingua.com,. (2014). Why it is important that children learn languages at an early age. Retrieved 26 November 2014, from http://www.musiclingua.com/early-language-benefits.html