UNIT 12: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN L1 AND L2 LEARNING

 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN L1 AND L2 LEARNING

      In this chapter I learned how students or children acquire their first language and the second language or foreign language. Some experts said that there are three ways to learn the langugae. First, Acquisition is the main tool for picking the languge up, in this stage especially children pick up a lot of words from the enviroment. Second, Interaction is other way of emerging the language. Children or students who are learning the langauge need to produce it. it does not of fact if they make a lot of mistakes. Children first pick up the language. For children, the language is mostly acquired in a natural context and the social group in which the child is growing. There are some essential factors that will be implied in the learning the languages. Those factors are; age, contexts and the way of learning the language. According to” Larsen-Freeman and Long (1991) point out, the age issue is an important one for theory building in second language acquisition research for educational policy-making and for language pedagogy.” Then, there are also some individual differences that play part in this distinction and they fall in two groups. First, physical differences and age: Children who are acquiring their first language are still developing their speech organs. This explains the gradual and natural development of sound production accompanied with the brain development. L2 learners’ competence is also affected by age-related physical conditions that hinder their learning. The best way to apply it in the classroom is, first, to make differences between the languages, analyzing the grammatical rules of the languages, syntax, ect. Those are being essential for teacher to try to teach the second language in the class. The clear example could be the sentences analyzing, introduce vocabulary, verbs and the sentence structure. Finally, it is easy to teach different lanaguages, it is unique, each language their structure. 

References

In this link you can see the big differences between L1 and L2

• Comparing First and Second Language Acquisition by Vivian Cook   Homepage.ntlworld.com,. (2014). Comparing First and Second Language Acquisition by Vivian Cook. Retrieved 26 November 2014, from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SLA/L1%
• Irjabs.com,. (2014). Retrieved 26 November 2014, from http://www.irjabs.com/files_site/paperlist/r_1023_1

• Differences between First Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning | سومر | J09W

J09w.com,. (2011). Differences between First Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning | سومر | J09W. Retrieved 26 November 2014, from http://j09w.com/wp/?p=37