INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION

FIRST & SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LEARNING

SONIA MARLEN CASTELLANOS

Group 551012

Individual participation

Julio Cesar Tulande Rengifo

Tutor.

UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA UNAD

BOGOTA D.C
28-02-2015

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TASK 1. DEFINING CONCEPTS

Language
It is the way that finds a group of people to communicate and share their feelings, needs
and thoughts, they developed gestures, signs and a common language that continued
in the time and it was acquired by the new generations. In the quest to perfection of
their language, they can construct grammatical rules, and so have good writing, reading
and understanding of their language.
Teaching
It consist to pass knowledge to others, using different approaches, tools, texts, drills and
the target is the learner acquire and master the information, for its success is necessary
that the learner have the interest, the motivation and struggle. Likewise the teacher
should have good readiness for that can give to their students an excellent guide.
Learning
Learning is when someone has the opportunity to obtain and understand information
voluntarily or involuntarily, when the learner succeeds in acquiring knowledge, either
from repetition, education or experience and is able to build their own concepts.
Through learning we adapt to different environments and can solve problems
Constructivism
Constructivism is a pedagogical theory it consist to give the student with tools to build
their own knowledge, in Colombia this approach is used in the schools, requires that
the learner to take an active part in their learning, participating and interacting to
generate building your knowledge.

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VYGOTSKY

Key Ideas

The childs culture and interactions with others help in their

development
The children that have dialogues with others can acquire new skills
The child is an active seeker of knowledge
The child and environment interact together enabling cognitive
development
The child is born with basic attentional, perceptual and memory
capacities
Development occurs with a direct contact with the environment