SLA – Session 4

Scaffolding techniques in the clip: 3 methods

 provide hints (pictures, gestures,)

 offer range of possible answer (provide the possibility for children to choose)
 additional resources to help the child understand the context/ idea [books, visual reminders,
other children]

Theories in SLA => How L2 learners acquire the language

1. Contrastive analysis (First LA)

2. Error analysis (First LA)
3. Universal grammar (innate principles)
4. The Monitor Model / Input Hypothesis (Input and practice)
5. Information processing/ cognitive approach (Cognitive nature)
6. Processing-related hypotheses
7. Emergentism and usage-based approaches
8. The sociocultural approach (social nature)

Theoretical views SLA

 First LA
 Innate principles
 Cognitive nature (what happens in your mind)
 Input and practice (the impact of the input): noticing hypotheses, comprehensible output
hypotheses (practice)
 Social nature (focus on the interaction)