Theory of First Language Proponent/s Salient Features

Acquisition

Children come into this world with a tabula rasa (a clean slate bearing no
a. Behaviorism B. F. Skinner preconceived notions about the world or about language) and that these children
are then shaped by the environment and slowly conditioned through various
schedules of reinforcement.
Language is a fundamental part of total human behavior.
Children imitate adults. Their correct utterances are reinforced when they get what
they want or are praised.
Noam Chomsky A child's brain contains special language-learning mechanisms at birth.
b. Innatism

Jerome Bruner This theory emphasises the interaction between children and their care-givers.
c. Interactionist’s Position Lev vygotsky

Theory of Second Language Proponent/s Salient Features

Acquisition
a. Acculturation Model  John Schumann  Second Language Acquisition is just one aspect of acculturation
and the degree to which a learner acculturates to the largest
language group will control the degree to which he/she acquires
the second language

 Howard Giles  Upward convergence and Downward convergence

b. Accommodation Theory
 Perceived social distance
 People are continually modifying their speech so as to reduce or
accentuate the linguistic social differences between them
depending on their perception of the interactive situation.
c. Discourse Theory  Vaughan Hatch  Follows from a theory of language use, in which communication
is treated as the matrix of linguistic knowledge
 Language is learned through active interaction between the child
and the environment
 Natural route is the result of learning how to hold conversations
 Natural route in syntactical development.
 Language development should be considered in terms of how the
learner discovers meaning potential of language by participating
in communication

d. Monitor Model  Stephen Krashen  Five Central Hypothesis

 The Acquisition versus learning Hypothesis
  The monitor Hypothesis
 The input Hypothesis
 The natural order hypothesis
 The affective filter Hypothesis

e. Variable Competence  Tarone Widdowson

Model  Rod Ellis
 Ellen Bialystok
f. Universal Hypothesis  Noam Chomsky

g. Neuro Functional  Graham Swift

Theory Lamendella
Title of Study Author/s Source Date of Research Conclusion/s Reommendation/s Possible Theory
Publication Findings Research
Title

1. Influential Rodriguez- 2014

Garcia, Luis DAI-A
Factors That 75/08(E),
Manuel,
Affect Retention Ed.D Dissertation
and Language Abstracts
International
Acquisition in
Beginning ESL
Adults Students ProQuest
2. Student- Thomas, DAI-A  2017,
Sarah-Jane, 79/07(E),
Created Videos as Dissertation
Ph.D.
a Language Abstracts
Acquisition International

Strategy for a ProQuest

Haitian Learner
3.Early Childhood Chae,  2014
Eunyoung DAI-A
Teacher 76/02(E),
Kim, Ed.D.
Professional Dissertation
Development Abstracts
International
Using an ProQuest
Interdisciplinary
Approach:
Teaching English
as a Foreign
Language for
Young Children in
Korea
4.A Case Study: Marrero DAI-A 2019
Colón, 80/07(E),
Meeting the Dissertation
Michelle
Needs of English Ivette, Ed.D Abstracts
Learners With International

Limited or
Interrupted
Formal Education
5.English as a Gheriani, DAI-A 2019
Hala, Ed.D. 80/11(E),
Second Dissertation
Language: Adult Abstracts
Programs and International

Their Impact on
Second Language
Learners'
Aspirations
6. Influence of Michelle, DAI-A  2016
Ed.D 78/04(E),
Social and Dissertation
Cultural Capital Abstracts
including International

Language of
English Learners
on Student
Engagement
7. Improving the Felix, DAI-A  2018,
Miranda J., 79/12(E),
Language Skills Dissertation
Ed.D
of English Abstracts
Learners: The International

Role of Computer-
Assisted
Instruction
8. Assessing Karlin, DAI-A 2015
Omar, Ed.D 77/05(E),
English Dissertation
Environment Abstracts
Personality and International

its role in oral

proficiency
9 Using small talk  La Spisa, MAI 2015
Luisa, M.Ed 54/03M(E),
cards to help Masters
lower the affective Abstracts
filter and increase International

language
acqusition in
adult English
learners
10 Meeting the
DAI-A
Linguistic Needs 80/11(E),
of English Dissertation
Learners through Abstracts
International
the Teaching and
Learning Cycle
by McManus-White,
Annita,
Ed.D., Concordia
University Irvine, 2019,
122; 13887080

11 Uncovering
DAI-A
Mainstream 81/4(E),
Classroom Dissertation
Abstracts
Teachers' International
Understanding of
Working with
English Learners
by Walkinshaw Garris,
Karen Y.,
D.Ed., University of
Maryland, College
Park, 2019, 132;
13880632

12 Perspectives
on English
Language Learner
Programs: A Case
Study
by Thompson, Stacie,
Ed.D., Lindenwood
University, 2019, 156;
13900155

DAI-A 80/11(E),
Dissertation Abstracts
International

13 English as a
foreign language
and cultural
capital in South
Korea: A mixed
methods study
by Seo, Eun Hi,
Ph.D., State University
of New York at Albany,
2010, 188; 3398939
DAI-A 71/05, Dissertation
Abstracts International
The benefits of
dual-language
instruction on the
narrative
development of
bilingual
English/Spanish
speakers with
specific language
impairment
by Manuel, Diana,
M.A., California State
University, Long
Beach, 2016, 120;
10164120
Source: MAI
56/01M(E),
Masters
Abstracts
International
The Relationship
Between
Teachers'
Multicultural
Attitudes and
Their Instructional
Practice with
English Language
Learners: A Mixed
Method Study
by Dodici, Adria
Danielle,
Ed.D., Portland State
University, 2011, 192;
3450007
DAI-A 72/06, Dissertation
Abstracts International
Perceived barriers to English language learning among international school students
by Allen, Timothy M., Ph.D., Capella University, 2010, 119; 3433012
DAI-A 72/02, Dissertation Abstracts International