Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition

Krashen, Stephen; Long, Michael A.; Scarcella, Robin

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“…O problema é que para um debate justo sobre o conceito de proficiência, seria necessário refutar trabalhos que poderiam servir como contra-argumento. Krashen (1982) propôs uma distinção entre a aquisição ( que é inconsciente) e a aprendizagem (consciente); ela comenta que aprende-se uma LE, mas se adquire a LM . Trata-se de um equívoco, pois Krashen inclui no seu modelo monitor a noção de aquisição que é um processo natural e subconsciente, visto por ele como a força motriz no desenvolvimento de fluência numa língua estrangeira.…”

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O Desejo da Teoria e A Contingência da Prática: discursos sobre e na sala de aula (língua materna e língua estrangeira)

Schmitz

2004

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O livro em tela, uma coletânea de artigos, organizado por Coracini e Bertoldo, recorre à disciplina chamada Análise do Discurso (doravante AD), e especificamente a linha francesa , como ela é conhecida no Brasil, com a finalidade de apresentar uma série de críticas às metodologias de pesquisa empírica (quantitativa) e interpretativa (qualitativa) utilizadas na disciplina de Lingüística Aplicada (doravante LA).Pretendo dividir a minha reflexão em três partes. Na primeira, vou descrever a organização da publicação junto com os títulos das diferentes partes, além de identificar os nove autores que colaboraram na realização do livro. Na segunda, vou descrever brevemente os diferentes assuntos tratados e informar os títulos dos artigos. No desenvolvimento desta parte, vou incluir, na qualidade de leitor crítico , a minha recepção dos trabalhos apresentados. Na terceira parte, vou questionar mais detalhadamente alguns dos temas abordados pela AD na sua crítica à LA, tais como a noção de regime de verdade , sujeito consciente e ciência moderna .

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O Desejo da Teoria e A Contingência da Prática: discursos sobre e na sala de aula (língua materna e língua estrangeira)

Schmitz

2004

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“…Results have not always been conclusive and the former popular maxim of "The younger the better" has been questioned in light of recent research results, especially in formal contexts of acquisition (for recent overviews on age effects see Muñoz and Singleton 2011;Muñoz 2008;Lightbown 2008). Although it is true that for some language aspects such as pronunciation, starting at an early age seems to be better, especially when naturalistic learning is at play (e. g. Krashen et al 1982); for other aspects such as syntax or vocabulary, the equation is not that clear (see e. g. García Mayo and García Lecumberri 2003;Villarreal 2013). Sensitive periods may also explain different effects in diverse linguistic domains.…”

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Teasing out the role of age and exposure in EFL learners’ lexical profiles: A comparison of children and adults

Agustin-Llach

Jiménez-Catalán

2018

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

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The present paper examines the lexical profiles of children and adult EFL learners in an attempt to untangle the roles of age and hours of exposure and their effect on lexical knowledge. Both age and exposure time have generally been acknowledged as relevant factors influencing foreign language acquisition, and vocabulary learning specifically. Participants in the study, who share the same amount of exposure to the target language but differ in age, were asked to write an informal letter introducing themselves. Their letters were scrutinized and mean production of tokens and types was found together with word frequencies and some lexical inconsistencies. In addition, the children participating in the study were enrolled in a CLIL program to match their hours of instruction with those of the adults. Their lexical profiles are characterized by fewer tokens and types and words of lower frequency related to the fields of school, home and science, the CLIL subject. They also use more cognates and commit more lexical inconsistencies than adult learners, who in turn produce more general words in longer letters. We interpret our results in light of the relevant role of age and instructional program.

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“…They make the teacher's task far easier and more pleasant and provide them with welcome feedback that they are good at their jobs (Senior, 2006). Furthermore, Roberts (1998) and Krashen (1985) have argued that when second language learners interact focusing on meaningful tasks or exchanges of information, then each learner receives comprehensible input from his or her conversational partner that matches the level of the learner's comprehension, and provides the opportunity to develop new structures and conversational patterns through this process of interaction. Furthermore, Long argues that when the teachers use cautiously designed pair work tasks can help learners obtain -comprehensible input,‖ that is, language that is at an appropriate level to facilitate acquisition.…”

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Student- Teacher and Student- Student Interaction in Second Language Teaching- Learning Environment: A Micro-Teaching Case Study

Darwish

2015

International Journal of Education and Practice

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In this research paper, the author has demonstrated the difference between the traditional ways of teaching English as a foreign language compared to the experimental technique through Contribution/ OriginalityThis paper's primary contribution is finding that microteaching is not only valuable for both new and experienced teachers to improve their teaching practices, but also to provide them an opportunity for reinforcing the new information that they learned in the application stage.

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Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition

Cited by 431 publications

References 10 publications

O Desejo da Teoria e A Contingência da Prática: discursos sobre e na sala de aula (língua materna e língua estrangeira)

O Desejo da Teoria e A Contingência da Prática: discursos sobre e na sala de aula (língua materna e língua estrangeira)

Teasing out the role of age and exposure in EFL learners’ lexical profiles: A comparison of children and adults

Student- Teacher and Student- Student Interaction in Second Language Teaching- Learning Environment: A Micro-Teaching Case Study

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