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    The document discusses questions about language acquisition and learning a new language from a text in "The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics." It addresses whether learning a language also involves learning about its culture, the importance of cultural learning, examples of English culture learned, the importance for translators of learning the source language's culture, challenges in defining language, different views of what language is, whether language can be considered a system, what a functional view of language studies, and advantages and focuses of different language teaching approaches.

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    The document discusses questions about language acquisition and learning a new language from a text in "The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics." It addresses whether learning a language also involves learning about its culture, the importance of cultural learning, examples of English culture learned, the importance for translators of learning the source language's culture, challenges in defining language, different views of what language is, whether language can be considered a system, what a functional view of language studies, and advantages and focuses of different language teaching approaches.

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    LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

    Read the text and discuss the following questions.


    1. When we learn a new language, do we learn part of its culture too? Justify.
    2. Is this important or necessary for a language learner? Justify.
    3. What have you learned about English culture while learning how to speak it?
    4. How important is it for a translator to learn about the SL culture?
    5. Why is it so hard to define what language is?
    6. Cook and Seidhofer provide an exhaustive definition of what language is. Which of the definition streams
    is the most accurate in your opinion?
    7. Can language be considered a system? Justify.
    8. What does a functional view of language study?
    9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two main approaches to teach a language?
    10. What is the focus in a posing-problem approach?
    “The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics,”
    James Simpson
    First edition published 2011
    Routledge

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