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INTRODUCTION
In this era, we have to know more about the importance of English being the
second language. Many countries in this world using English as their daily language
although English is not their nature language. Being the second language, English is very
useful for communicating with people who come from other countries because foreign
people usually use English when they go overseas. Although Indonesia doesn’t make
English as a second language, at least Indonesia using English as their foreign language.
It’s not a bad thing because most of Indonesian have been learning English since they
were a child, but it will be better if they use English as their second language.
acquisition refers to what learners do; it does not refer to practices in language teaching,
although teaching can affect acquisition. The term acquisition was originally used to
emphasize the non-conscious nature of the learning process, but in recent years learning
SLA can incorporate heritage language learning, but it does not usually incorporate
bilingualism. Most SLA researchers see bilingualism as being the end result of learning a
language, not the process itself, and see the term as referring to native-like fluency.
Writers in fields such as education and psychology, however, often use bilingualism
loosely to refer to all forms of multilingualism. SLA is also not to be contrasted with the
acquisition of a foreign language; rather, the learning of second languages and the
situations.
Language acquisition is very similar to the process children use in acquiring first
communication--in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances
but with the messages they are conveying and understanding. Error correction and
explicit teaching of rules are not relevant to language acquisition (Brown and Hanlon,
1970; Brown, Cazden, and Bellugi, 1973), but care takers and native speakers can modify
their utterances addressed to acquirers to help them understand, and these modifications
are thought to help the acquisition process (Snow and Ferguson, 1977). It has been
acquisition, that is, one can see clear similarities across acquirers as to which structures
tend to be acquired early and which tend to be acquired late (Brown, 1973; Dulay and
Burt, 1975). Acquirers need not have a conscious awareness of the "rules" they possess,
deal by error correction and the presentation of explicit rules (Krashen and Seliger, 1975).
Error correction it is maintained, helps the learner come to the correct mental
representation of the linguistic generalization. Whether such feedback has this effect to
a significant degree remains an open question (Fanselow, 1977; Long, 1977). No invariant
order of learning is claimed, although syllabi implicitly claim that learners proceed from
simple to complex, a sequence that may not be identical to the acquisition sequence.