English Composition 2

Cause and Effect Essay

Potential Topic
The native language affects the way people learn foreign languages.
(Mainly, between Korean and English)

Japanese: Resembled to Korean (Words, grammar, sentence structures)

English: Quite different to Korean (same)

<The Barrier of English Acquisition>

Brainstorming
1. Resemblance of words between native and foreign languages
2. Grammar structure (Affixes, sentence order, etc.)
3. Pronunciation

Targets
For Korean people who learn English as a second language

More Information about topic

Learn foreign language = Learn foreign culture
Koreans: Hardly use English in daily life (Big barrier of English acquisition)
Why it is difficult to learn English?
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Differences between Korean and English (Just small part of an Essay, not as
a main idea)

BECAUSE IT IS NOT A COMPARATIVE ESSAY!! STAY IN THE TOPIC PLZ!!

Research
1) Google
1. Second language acquisition
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Stephen Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition i

2. Native language and second language acquisition.

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How does mother tongue affect second language acquisition? ii

3. Others

2) Paper Books

1. Stephan Krashens Theory of Second Language Acquisition

1) Acquisition (Second language acquisition process)
2) Learning (Native language acquisition process)
3) The Monitor Hypothesis (How native language grammar helps second
language acquisition)

2. How does mother tongue affect second language acquisition?

1) Continuous speech understanding
2)

Intonation

i http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash-english.html
ii http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=122835