EG 4753 Language Acquisition Dr' Somsri Jansom

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EG 4753 Language Acquisition???????????????
Dr. Somsri Jansom
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Your Teacher

• B.Ns. (Nursing)
• The Thai Red Cross College of Nursing
• M.A. (Applied Linguistics)
• Mahidol University
• Ph.D. (English as an International Language)
• Chulalongkorn University
• Contact No. 08-9-481-1885

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• What do you expect to learn from this course?
• How would the knowledge be useful for you?

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Course Objectives

• Upon the completion of the course, students
  should be able to
• Explain major language learning theories.
• Apply the theories to explain language
  development of a child and an adult.
• State factors that are involved with language
  learning and their impacts.
• Spell out pedagogical implications of the
  theories.

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Methods of teaching

• Lecture
• Group discussion
• Class discussion
• Report presentation

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Evaluation

• Class participation 10
• Quizzes 10
• Report and Presentation 20
• Midterm Exam 30
• Final Exam 30
• Total 100

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Grading Criteria

• 80-100 A
• 75-79 B
• 70-74 B
• 65-69 C
• 60-64 C
• 55-59 D
• 50-54 D
• 0-49 F

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Your Expectation

• What is your expectation from this course?
• What do you think you will learn from this
  course?
• How would that be useful for you?

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My Expectation

• Be punctual.
• No cell phone in class.
• You will be assigned to work in team. Take an
  active role in your learning.
• Ill do my best to help you learn, and I hope
  youll do your best, too.

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Any questions?

• Divide in to Teams
• Name your team

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Definition of key terms

• What is your definition of language? Work with
  your team to give the definition.
• What does to know a language mean?
• - Sound system
• - Grammar
• - Pragmatics (use appropriately)

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The properties of language (Yule, 1985)

• 1. Arbitrariness. There is no natural
  connection between a linguistic form and its
  meaning.
• 2. Productivity. The potential number of
  utterances in any human language is infinite. We
  use our linguistic resources to produce new
  expressions and new sentences.

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The properties of language (cont.)

• 3. Displacement. The ability to refer to past or
  future time, and to other locations.
• 4. Cultural transmission. Language is passed on
  from one generation to the next generation.

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The properties of language (Cont.)

• 5. Discreteness. The sounds used in language are
  meaningfully distinct. E.g. bin and pin have
  different meaning because of the difference
  between b and p sound in English.
• 6. Duality. Language is organized at two levels
  or layers simultaneously. E.g. nib and bin, at
  one level we have distinct sounds, and at another
  level we have distinct meanings.

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Language Acquisition

• The process by which a child acquires its
  mother tongue.
• L1 first language or mother tongue
• L2 sencond languge
• IL Interlanguage
• Now, think about how do we learn our mother
  tongue (Thai). Discuss with your team and write
  it down.

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Assignments

• Read ?????????????????? written by
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• Prepare for the quiz next time.