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First Language Page 1

Acquisition

Group 1
1) Paulina Mariela Charita
2) Siti Maisara Ahmad
Table of Contents
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01 02

DEFENITION THEORIES

03 04

STAGE OF FLA THE DIFFERENCES


BETWEEN FLA & SLA
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DEFENITI
ON
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Some definition of FLA:

• First language acquisition is children’s acquisition of their native


language
• A subconscious process
• Doesn’t require explicit instructions or education
• Learners reach native fluency
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02
Theories
Four theories of FLA Page 6

Theory Central idea Individual with


theory
Behaviourism Children imitate adults. Their correct utterances B.F. Skinner
reinforced when they get what they want or are
praised
Innateness A child’s brain contains special language-learning Noam Chomsky
mechanisms at birth.

Cognitive Language is just one aspect of child’s overall Piaget


intellectual development
Interaction This theory emphasises the interaction between J. Bruner
children and their care-givers
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03 ESPAÑOL

Stage of
FLA
1. Pre-birth: Preparation of the Page 8
human brain for language
acquisition after birth
Language acquisition begins well before a child is born. Babies are initially
familiarized with speech and language in the womb. The human ear begins to
function at the 3rd trimester or the 7-month mark of pregnancy (Saxton, 2017).
During this period, unborn infants respond to all types of sounds.
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2. The Pre-linguistic Stage
The pre-linguistic stage ranges from birth to
approximately 6 months. Noises in this stage
include crying, whimpering, and cooing. These
sounds are not considered language because
they are involuntary responses to stimuli.
3. Babbling (7 months of
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age)
At this stage, infants begin to explore the properties of sounds through
production. The sounds of early babbling are universal. However, by the
time a child reaches the age of 8 months, a drift occurs in the
characteristics of babbling (Helms-Park, 2018). Babbling becomes more
distinctive. Infants begin to make sounds that would only occur in their own
native languages.
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4. One-word (Holophrastic) Stage (1 -
1.5 years old)
During this stage, children begin to acquire and produce real words of their
native languages. A child in this stage will use single-word constructions to
communicate. The use of single-word items is meant to convey full
sentences provided the context.
5. Two Word Stage (1.5 - 2 Page 12
years-old)
Children usually enter this stage when they have acquired
about 50 words. They begin to demonstrate their
knowledge of the word order that occurs in their
language.
6. Telegraphic Stage (2 - 2.5 Page 13
years-old)
At this stage, children experience a vocabulary spurt or
“explosion.” Production is pidgin-like, as grammatical/function
words (little words) such as ‘the,’ ‘a,’ ‘is,’ ‘will,’ ‘of,’ ‘by,’
pluralization, tense (past -ed), verb endings/person agreements
(she eat ‘s’) are omitted.
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7. The After Telegraphic Stage
(2.6 - 3 years old)
At this stage, children begin to string together more
than two words, perhaps three, four, or five words at a
time.
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Differences between
FLA & SLA
The main difference between first language and
second language acquisition is that first language
acquisition is a child learning his native language,
whereas second language acquisition is learning a
language besides his native language.
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