Second language acquisition/learning

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Second language acquisition/learning

What do you think is the biggest challenge ESL learners face?

pronunciation

grammar

confidence

vocabulary

What makes ESL teach different from other types of teaching

Scenario: you have a student who understands written English but struggles to speak, how would you help?

1. focus on grammar first
2. use conversation based learning
3. assign more writing exercises
4. Let the student listen more before speaking.

Teaching strategies

• grammar translation method
• Audiolingual method 
• communicative approach 

The audiolingual method

communicative language approach

grammar translation method

You  want to learn the students the excellent pronunciation

Your goal is to improve students’ speaking skills through real-life conversations

Your goal is for your students to learn the language as accurate as possible

Language Aquisition vs learning

Language learning

language aquisition 

spontaniously

conscious

without teacher

with teacher

Focus on the learner 

Transfer

• positive and negative 
• use of sounds expressions or structures from L1 
•  From for instances Spanish it is easier to learn Italian

negative transfer 

motivation 

instrumental - goal related

integrative - social purposes

input & output

foreigner talk 

negotiated input