Chapter VIII Language Acquisition,Mother Tongue Primer to Language Use Stages to Mother Tongue,Do Children Learn By Imitation?,Stages of first language learninga. one wordApple. (I would like to have an apple. This is an apple.)b. two wordsDaddy, apple.c. more wordsDoggy sit here.,Importance of Correction,Pronounshe, she, itHe is a housewife.This is a doggy, it is nice.SentencesChild: I had no nothing.Mom: You should say “I had nothing.”Child: Ok, I had no nothing.Mom: My dear, please say “had nothing”, without “no”.Child: Alright, I had no nothing.Mom: ,Importance of Schooling,What do we learn at school?a. “grammar school”: understanding rules of reading and writing.b. related world knowledgecats are animals.c. right way of pronouncing the wordd. other related aspects of life,Second Language Learning (I),Learning vs Acquisitiona. naturalness of learninginterference (Mother tongue to target language)I learn a lot of knowledge from my teacher. (Cf. Chinese)Eat, eat, pleaseadaptation (Mother tongue to target language)I love the book. (Cf. Chinese word order)He goes to Beijing.,Second Language Learning (II),b. school learning and environmentNaturalness of learning:Have you had breakfast? vs How are you doing?,Second Language Learning (III),c. text booksChinese EnglishInformation Releasing ConferencevsPress Conference ChinglishPeople mountain, people sea.Give some color to look look.,Second Language Learning (IV),d. media for language learning: the unavoidable powerTV, Radio, Newspaper, CD, DVD, internet, movie,Ways to Enhance Learning,Games Social practice Role play Norms of communication Patterns of life Forms of community Forms of life,