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EL 103
Ms. Angelica Jimenez
Hi there!
Let’s get to know each other 
Take Note
• Attend classes and come on time. Attendance is part of my grading
system.

Attends and on time 5 points

Attends but late 2 points
Absent 0 point

• Missed activities and exams can be only be taken within two weeks that
you’ve missed it. Note that if ever it is a group activity, you will do it
yourself. Please communicate with me.
 Reminders
• Participation is highly encouraged.
• Ask questions and clarifications if you find the lesson difficult to
comprehend.
• Use English language in speaking. You are ENGLISH MAJORS.
• Mistakes are okay, but not tolerated. Correct me or your classmates if
something is not right. Always do things with kindness and love.
• If there are concerns, please communicate it to me ASAP.
• Do not leave the class without learning a thing or two.
 Things you should know…
• Always follow the instructions and ask for clarifications if ever.
• Cheating and plagiarism are highly discouraged.
• Submit on time, not on the deadline. That’s why it is called “DEADLINE”,
when you meet it, you are DEAD. Submitting after the deadline means you
will only get half of the score as the highest score.
• Greet people especially the staff in PCCM, puh-lease. Especially when you
enter the faculty. May it be someone you know or not, say “Good day.”
• You are a future educator. Act like one.
• Make our class a safe space. Everyone has a space and deserves to be safe.
Course Syllabus
 Grading System
MIDTERM
QUIZZES 20% After discussion; can be pencil and paper; activities
RECITATION 20% Informal Debate
OTHER 20% Assignments, Movie Reflection
REQUIREMENTS
MIDTERM EXAM 40% Written

FINALS
QUIZZES 20% After discussion; from the reporters/discussants
RECITATION 20% Oral Recitation
OTHER 20% Research Analysis and Discussion, Role Playing
REQUIREMENTS
FINAL EXAM 40% Process E-Port-folio of Language and Learning Reflection
Hard or softcopy (website, blog) will do
Principles and Theories of
Language Acquisition and
Learning
EL 103
Ms. Angelica Jimenez
 Review!

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The Nature of
Language and
Learning
Language
 DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE

 According to Pinker's Tfte (1994)

Language is …
a complex, specialized skill, which develops in the child spontaneously, without
conscious effort or formal instruction,
is deployed without awareness of its underlying logic
is qualitatively the same in every individual
is distinct from more general abilities to process information or behave intelligently.
 DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE

 According to Ron Scollon (2004)

Language is not something that comes in "nicely

packaged units" and that it certainly is "a multiple,
complex, and kaleidoscopic phenomenon."
DEFINITION  According to Douglas Brown:
1. Language is systematic.
OF 2. Language is a set of arbitrary symbols.
LANGUAGE 3. Those symbols are primarily vocal, but may also be
visual,
4. The symbols have conventionalized meanings to
which they refer.
5. Language is used for communication.
6. Language operates in a speech community or culture.
7. Language is essentially human, although possibly not
limited to humans.
8. Language is acquired by all people in much the same
way; language and language learning both have
universal characteristics.
OBJECTIVES

•Define and relate language and learning

•Differentiate acquisition from learning
•Highlight the importance of teaching
English language throughout history
Get ¼ sheet of paper and ballpen.
 Memorize as many words as you can in one
minute.
• lady • street • Teacher • Owl
• cardigan • city lights • Mouth • Harry
• hat • speaker Potter
• night
• dog • Bag • Dark
• phone
• leash • Lipstick • Eclipse
• smile
• slow • Keychain • forest
• selfie
• open • home • beauty
Learning Trivia & Hack!
Learning Trivia & Hack!
“There is no credible evidence that learning
•Learning styles exist,” write psychologists Cedar Riener
and Daniel Willingham in a 2010 paper titled
The Myth of Learning Styles. “Students may
styles are have preferences about how to learn, but no
evidence suggests that catering to those

NOT preferences will lead to better learning.”

Other resources:

TRUE! • William Furrey, 2020

• Olga Khazan, 2018
• Shaylene Nancekivell, 2019
 SO
WHAT
Make
? Learning
Meaningful
Learning
 How do you think did
you learn the language?
 DEFINITION OF
LEARNING
- Douglas Brown
1. Learning is acquisition or "getting."
2. Learning is retention of information or skill.
3. Retention implies storage systems, memory, cognitive
organization.
4. Learning involves active, conscious focus on and acting
upon events outside or inside the organism.
5. Learning is relatively permanent but subject to forgetting.
6. Learning involves some form of practice, perhaps
reinforced practice.
7. Learning is a change in behavior.
Let’s Play- The Word Board
• The class will be divided into two teams. One team will have the word
“Language” and the other one “learning”.
• Each members of the group shall fall in line. One by one, they must write one
word on the board that is related with the assigned word. For the next member to
write, the chalk should be passed on the base from the member who have already
written.
• The team only has five minutes to write. Every similar word with the other team
will be a reduced point. The one who writes the related words most wins.
• Not following instructions means your team lose.
 Language Learning
vs.
Language Acquisition
Stephen Krashen
Acquisition vs. Learning
 Learning or Acquisition?
•Timmy is a one-year old who has started trying to say “Mama” because he always
hears it being said by his older sister whenever she calls their mom.
•Tania is a student from Bulacan currently living in the US. She is going to begin
high school in the fall but is taking an English as a second language class during
the summer.
•Shiela is recording herself while practicing the right pronunciation of each word
she sees in Youtube. She wanted to improve her speaking skills and pronunciation.
•With his 30 years residence in Canada, Ken is able to listen and speak effectively
in English even without having a tutor since he has been exposed for too long with
his English environment.
What does it
tell to us?
Things to ponder…
•What are the things or habits I have to do to learn the English
language?
Speaking
Listening
Reading
Writing
Grammar
WHY IS TEACHING
ENGLISH
ESSENTIAL?
IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING ENGLISH

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LANGUAGE TEACHING IN
HISTORY
 Before 20th Century

• best captured as a "tradition"

• Classical Method came to be known as
the Grammar Translation Method.
• focus on grammatical rules as the
Overview basis for translating from the second
to the native language

After 20th Century

• The field of psychology started to merge

with education
 1600’s - Major Characteristics of Grammar Translation
(Prator and Ceice-Murcia, 1979)

• 1. Classes taught in the mother tongue; little use of the L2

• 2. Much vocabulary taught in the form of lists of isolated words
• 3- Elaborate explanations of the intricacies of grammar
• 4. Reading of difficult classical texts begun early
• 5. Texts treated as exercises in grammatical analysis
• 6. Occasional drills and exercises in translating sentences from LI to L2
• 7. Little or no attention to pronunciation
 1900s
Direct Method
• The Direct Method involved
students making direct
associations between objects
or concepts and the
corresponding words in the
target language. Teachers
frequently used images,
objects and realia to represent
the vocabulary.
1920s
The Oral Approach
• Unsurprisingly, this approach
focused on speaking – and
listening. Language was
presented in everyday scenarios,
and students had to mainly
listen and repeat. Lessons were
based around the principles of
selection, gradation and
presentation.
1940 to 1994
• 1940s - The Audiolingual Method
• 1960s - Situational Language Teaching
• 1963 - The Silent Way
• 1970s – Suggestopedia
• 1980s - The Natural Approach
• 1987 - Task-based Learning
• 1994 - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Our
language
evolves, so it
is inevitable
that our
Any
“Every language is unique. Every
learner is unique. Every language
learning experience is unique, and
every context is unique. Your task as
a teacher is to craft something
beautiful out of these uniqueness.”

Take aways!
Search this for an
informal
debate..

Is acquisition of language
a nature, or should be
nurtured?