My TESSOL paper has actually started which I had spent the whole day at Uni on the 4th of March. It was an exciting day. This is my 3rd core paper which is the EDPROFST 373 Language Learning in the New Zealand Context. The learning outcomes for this session will help build on our understanding of :
- the elements of tasks and consciousness raising tasks
- Connections between task and language processes
- and how to create tasks for Second Language Acquisition (SLA).
The lecture for the day was focussed on the Language learning theories and their findings about Second Language Acquisition (SLA). We did the jigsaw puzzle where everyone had been assigned to a home group and then to their theory’s group and then back to home group to report about our discussion.
I read the Gardner’s Socio-educational Model and some of Gardner’s key parts presented were about the ‘ability and aptitude for language’ and two concepts that are part of the reason why some students learn the language faster than others.
‘Ability and Aptitude’ and Baker (1992) explained that there are two types of people who learn second language. People who have the aptitude and motivation’.
Group 1 learn language because they want to socialised with different ethnic communities or wish to join a cultural activities and the second group wish to learn the language because they want to acquire a job and earn money or want to further up their career prospects which is known as a motivational instrument. The first group is known as integrative motivation.
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