Warm-up Team competition

Rules:
Each team will get a
crossword.
Players must read the
clues and solve it.
The first team to finish
will be the winner.
Compound concepts
must be separated
using a dash. For
example:
Approximative-systems.
INTERLANGU Lado and Weinreich had
been over simplistic.
AGE BY Behaviourist and
structuralist point
of view: Language
learning as habit
formation.
 Cognitivism/ Nature: Nurture

Approximative Systems by
Nemser

The focus should

be on the learner
´s own system as
it develops closer
to the L2.

“Only by treating learners’ language as a phenomenon to be studied in its own right

can we hope to develop an understanding of second language acquisition”
Independent grammar

Psychological mechanism
for creating it and using it.

It is seldom
completely
successful.
5 different processes
that are part of the
latent psychological
structure
Transfer of Training
Teaching creates language rules
that are not part of the L2 and
these are acquired by learners.

Strategies of L2
learning
Learners tend to simplify
language rules by formulating
hypothesis that are easy to
form. It often happens because
of the learners´ experiences
with other structures.

Learners omit communicatively

Communication strategies redundant grammatical items.
“Yesterday, I eated nachos
with cheddar”

“She have got pink hair”

“You have got very

expensives pens”

“She can plays tennis”

“It has nothing to see”

FINAL CONCLUSIONS…
L2 learners construct a unique linguistic system. Every learner´s
interlanguage is unique.

Learners construct their own mental grammars

Learners employ different strategies

Learners´ grammars are permeable, they to develop their Interlanguages.
are influenced by internal and external These are reflected in the errors
they produce.
factors.

Learners 'grammars are transitional,

learners change their grammars and
reconstruct their systems.

Language continuum
 Include Selinker´s views
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Interlanguage
Fossilization
Processes
Examples!

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