Seeds of Life
martes, 9 de agosto de 2016
viernes, 24 de junio de 2016
Chomsky’s Nativist Position
Chomsky
believes that human beings are born with an inherited ability to learn any
language. He claims that certain linguistic structures which children use so
accurately must be already imprinted in the child’s mind. Chomsky believes that
every child has a LAD (language acquisition device) which encodes the major
principles of a language and its grammatical structures into the child’s brain.
Children have to learn new vocabulary and apply the syntactic structures from
the LAD in order to form sentences. (LAD was the first name used; UG is more
precise. Apart from the principles, UG contains the parameters that account for
the differences among learners. Children acquiring their L1 are setting the
parameters according to the input they hear.
He also points
out that a child could not learn a language through imitation alone because his/her
parents’ speech is sometimes ungrammatical and for other reasons too, like the
poverty of the stimulus argument. Chomsky’s theory applies to all languages as
they all contain forms and children appear to be hard-wired to acquire the
grammar. Every language is complex, often with subtle distinctions which even
native speakers are unaware of. However,
all children, regardless of their intellectual ability become fluent in their
native language by the time they are five years old.
There are
arguments against the theory. Critics of Chomsky’s theory say that although it
is clear that children don’t learn language through imitation alone, this does
not prove that they must have an LAD, language learning could be through
general learning and understanding abilities and interactions with other
people.
viernes, 27 de mayo de 2016
martes, 24 de mayo de 2016
TASK with MACROfunction, MICROfunction and Grammar contents.
TASK
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MACROFUNCTION
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MICROFUNCTION
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GRAMMAR
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The teacher sends the students via whatsApp an extract audio from a very well-known movie which the pupils do not know. (Shrek)
Once they listen to it, they will have to
guess which movie is about.
They will have to mention the characters involved in
the conversation.
They will have to discuss what the characters are doing and talking about.
Finally, they will have to watch the video this
extract belongs to and check the answers.
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Exchanging goods and services.
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Listening to the conversation. Understanding
vocabulary.
Telling the class briefly what happens in the movie.
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Present Continuous and Simple Present Tenses.
Stative verbs.
Modal verbs.
Proper Nouns.
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