EL103: PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES OF LANGUAGE

ACQUISITION
AND LEARNING

PRE-ACTIVITY 9

Directions: Answer the following questions in 3 or more sentences. It should be IN

YOUR OWN WORDS.

1. Differentiate Second Language Learning and The First Language.

Well for me, a first language is the language you were raised to speak. A second language is
a language you must know if you’re going to live in a different country that has a different
language.

2. Explain briefly how do you better integrate the life-experience of adult learners to

their second language learning?

Make them comfortable and also the learning environment friendly. I think it could be related to
the need of an adult student, with some future employment opportunity in a country of a different
language than the one of their origin. This experience could be integrated through student
exchange programs.

3. What factors do you think might make it easier or more difficult to learn L2
vocabulary items?

To learn vocabulary & keep the learning process in our mind is for our individual habits & the
most important to achieve the success in our presentation of our working environment.