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Principles and Theories of Language Acquisition and Learning

This course examines principles of first and second language acquisition through relevant linguistic theories. It focuses on current notions of language learning and their applicability to institutional contexts. Course outcomes include understanding factors influencing acquisition, designing effective lesson plans, and developing comprehension of how languages are acquired. Requirements include demonstrations of language teaching in classroom, community, and school settings.

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Principles and Theories of Language Acquisition and Learning

This course examines principles of first and second language acquisition through relevant linguistic theories. It focuses on current notions of language learning and their applicability to institutional contexts. Course outcomes include understanding factors influencing acquisition, designing effective lesson plans, and developing comprehension of how languages are acquired. Requirements include demonstrations of language teaching in classroom, community, and school settings.

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PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES

OF LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION AND
LEARNING
ENG 150: SESSION #1
Instructor: Ms. Rocel Mae Roca
Course Description:
• This course deals with the examining
and analyzing of the second
language acquisition, teaching and
learning principles and methods that
are essential for creating effective
learning contexts that enhance the
student's own learning potential.
Course Description:
• This course serves as a general introduction
to the study of language acquisition.
Principles of first and second language
acquisition will be examined in light of such
linguistic theory. This will focus on current
theoretical notions of language acquisition
while paying particular attention to how such
notions might become relevant for
institutional learning.
Course Outcomes:
• Apply essential strategies for
developing and integrating the four
language skills of listening
comprehension, oral communication,
reading, and writing.
• Identify the political, social, and
cultural issues related to language
teaching
Course Outcomes:
• Design and implement effective daily
lesson plans which meet the needs
of students within the context of the
regular classroom.
• Understand the differences and
similarities between first language
acquisition and second/ multi
language acquisition
Course Outcomes:
• Understand the role of different
factors influencing language
acquisition such as age, transfer, and
the linguistic and social environment.
• Develop an understand of how
language is acquired as a first
language or as a second.
Course Requirements:
• Language Teaching/Demonstration
–P1: classroom based
–P2: community based
–P3: school based
ACTIVITY
Let’s CHILL 
ACTIVITY: Sentence Formation
• Rearrange the given words to form a
correct sentence.
• Write the answer on the given paper
then give it to the game master through
doing the twist indicated.
• The first group who will be able to give
first the correct sentence will get two (2)
points.
READY?
Let’s CHILL 
Sentence #1

too/feel/I/today/hot
Sentence #1

I feel too hot today.


Sentence #2

I/a/caught/when/
was/on/disease/
holiday/I
Sentence #2

I caught a disease
when I was on
holiday.
Sentence #3

hurt/eyes/really/
my/much/if/I/
computer/use/too/
the
Sentence #3

My eyes really hurt


if I use the
computer too
much.
Sentence #4

nurses/the/in/will/
look/hospital/
after/you/the
Sentence #4

The nurses in the


hospital will look
after you.
Sentence #5

this/three/a/
medicine/take/day
/times
Sentence #5

Take this medicine


three times a day.
Sentence #6

bleeding/bandage/
with/stop/the/try
/to/a
Sentence #6

Try to stop the


bleeding with a
bandage.
Sentence #7

oven/hot/careful/
don’t/on/burn/
yourself/the/you/
be
Sentence #7

Be careful you
don’t burn
yourself on the
hot oven.
Sentence #8

because/all/
coughed/day/I/
cold/had/a/I
Sentence #8

I coughed all day


because I had cold.
Sentence #9

my/playing/I/
injured/football/
leg
Sentence #9

I injured my leg
playing football.
Sentence #10

she/operate/if/better
/get/need/doesn’t/
the/will/to/doctor
Sentence #10

If she doesn’t get


better the doctor
will need to operate.
Sentence #11

died/he/collapsed/
heart/ and/ of/
attack/a
Sentence #11

He collapsed and
died a heart attack.
Sentence #12

develop/might/your/
into/illness/serious/
something/more
Sentence #12

Your illness might


develop into
something more
serious.
Sentence #13

blood/saw/she/when
/fainted/she/the
Sentence #13

She fainted when she


saw the blood.
Sentence #14

hat/head/my/this/
itch/makes
Sentence #14

This hat makes my


head itch.
Sentence #15

mosquito/don’t/your
/bites/scratch
Sentence #15

Don’t scratch your


mosquito bites.
PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES
OF LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION AND
LEARNING
ENG 150: SESSION #1
Instructor: Ms. Rocel Mae Roca
Characteristics of Language

1. Language is systematic.
2. Language is a set of arbitrary symbols.
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.
Characteristics of Language

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.
Areas focused on the characteristics of
Language
1. Explicit and formal accounts of the system of language
on several possible levels (e.g.,phonological, syntactic,
lexical, and semantic analysis)
2. The symbolic nature of language; the relationship
between language and reality; the philosophy of
language; the history of language
3- Phonetics; phonology; writing systems; the role of
gesture, distance, eye contact, and other
"paralinguistic" features of language
4. Semantics; language and cognition; psycholinguistics
Areas focused on the characteristics of
Language
5. Communication systems; speaker-hearer
interaction; sentence processing
6. Dialectology: socio linguistics; language and culture;
pragmatics; bilingual ism and second language
acquisition
7. Human language and nonhuman communication:
neurolinguistics; innate factors; genetic
transmission; nature vs. nurture
8. Language universals; first language acquisition
What is Learning?
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.
What is Learning?
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.

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