SLA: refers to the study of the processes through which learner acquires a new language.

* OPORTUNITIES OF
SLA AT THE COMPUTER
When learners are prompted to engage in collaboration to negotiation of meaning.
Acquisition is promoted when the input to which the learner is exposed is comprehensible.

* LANGUAGE TO WHICH LEARNERS ARE XPOSED TO. * COMPREHENSION OF LANGUAGE * FOR TRULY UNDERSTANDING LEARNERS NEED

OPPORTUNITIES TO USE THE TARGET LANGUAGE

COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT AND OUTPUT

BEHAVIORIST ASPECTS INCLUDE ATATING THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM OR TASK OFFEREING REINFORCEMENT THROUGH TEXT IMAGES AUDIO ANIMATIONS/ETC. INTERACTION BETWEEN PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION OF SUBJECT TECHNOLOGY.

Humanistic model different from behavior. The learner is responsible and controls over what he learns.

Constructivism views learning as a process in which the learner actively constructs or builds new ideas or concepts based upon current and past knowledge or experience.

PROVIDES AN IDEA OF HOW KNOWLEDGE IS ORGANIZED.

THIS THEORY SUGGESTS THAT OUR KNOWLEDGE IS ORGANIZED INTO INTORRELATED PATTERNS.

CONSTRUCTIVISM DIFFERS FROM BEHAVIOURISM

BEHAVIOURISM= LEARNERS STATE OF MID IS OF A BLANK SLATE. CONSTRUCTIVISM= ENCOURAGES LEARNERS TO BUILD ON WHAT THEY KNOW TO GO BEYOND THE MEMORIZATION

VYGOSTKY CONTRIBUTION

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY SOCIAL INTERACTION IS IMPORTANT. SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DOES NOT DRAW IN FIRST LANGUAGE, BUT IT CAN INFLUENCE.

COMPUTER PROVIDES NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR BEHAVIOURIST MODELS OF LEARNING.