scholarly journals Goal of Language Acquisition is to Develop Communications Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 49-50
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Communications Skills

Volumes about language teaching and language acquisition have been coming out ever since Noam Chomsky had leveled at structural linguistic theory. Books have been written about the approaches and methods of teaching a language. But the Undenying fact is that those volumes have failed to suggest an obvious impact on the listener. Though we have traditional methods such as “Audio lingual method” and “situational language teaching method”, none has brought the desired result..

scholarly journals Results of Implementing Communicative Language Teaching Method in English Language Learning in 9-Year Elementary Schools. (Albanian Context)

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Evis Kapurani
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
The Impact

Theoretically Communicative Language Teaching Method (CLT) claims to be one of the best available foreign language teaching methods in teaching and learning foreign language in communication because it improves effectively not only communicative competence of students but also their language acquisition and its use in Albanian schools is an innovation. The purpose of this study is to analyze the results that the use of a contemporary interactive student-centered method has when it is used in learning a foreign language compared with traditional methods. This is an empirical study which includes control groups where traditional methods are used and experimental groups where CLT method is used based on a comparison between these methods for a period of 6 months. It is mainly focused on the implementation of CLT in Albanian 9-year elementary schools in learning English as a foreign language through communication and interaction compared with other traditional methods used. The study analyzes the impact, results and advantages of the use in practice of CLT method in Albanian 9-year elementary schools on sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades, its efficacy in learning, in foreign language acquisition and students performance in four language skills. It contains an analysis of theory versus practice use of CLT as a foreign language teaching method. The data about the implementation of CLT method in practice are collected from teachers and students in Albanian 9-year elementary schools through classroom observation and tests. Classroom observations are focused on finding how the teacher develops the lessons and if it is based on CLT principles on experimental groups and how students react during the lesson in comparison with control groups. Tests are used to compare students’ results on learning based on their grades in both groups. All results are converted into percentages. Findings are analyzed based on theoretical issues. The results show that using CLT is a successful method in both learning and teaching compared with other traditional methods.

The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Universal Grammar ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
Comparative Syntax ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Structural Principles ◽  
Scholastic Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Questions

The idea that all languages show affinities in their organisation, and particularly in grammar, is not a new one. It arguably originates in the thought of Plato and Aristotle, and manifests in medieval scholastic philosophy, in the 17th-century Port-Royal grammarians, and in modern linguistic theory. In modern linguistics, the concept of a universal set of structural principles that underlies the superficial grammatical diversity of the world’s languages has been most influentially developed by Noam Chomsky. The primary goal of this Handbook is to provide an overview and guide to this aspect of Chomsky’s thinking, to set Chomsky’s ideas in context, to look at their motivation, and to consider their implications. The Handbook is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the philosophical questions related to Universal Grammar (UG), Part II deals with general questions of linguistic theory, Part II with language acquisition, Part IV with comparative syntax and Part V with wider issues.

Sentence First, Arguments Afterward

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Gleitman
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Developmental Psycholinguistics

This book collects the most significant papers written by Lila R. Gleitman, spanning 50 years of research on language and its acquisition. The book traces the roots of developmental psycholinguistics while presenting empirically driven arguments in favor of a rationalist theory of language acquisition. Gleitman’s work simultaneously shows how learners acquire knowledge richer than what can be found in the environment and how they use their input to acquire a specific language. The book also includes a foreword by Noam Chomsky and an introductory chapter by Jeffrey Lidz contextualizing Gleitman’s work in the transition from structuralism to mentalist architectures in linguistics.

Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition

Language ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Sara Thomas Rosen ◽  
Suzanne Flynn ◽  
Wayne O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Linguistic Theory

scholarly journals Christopher Brumfit Award 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-433
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Quality Of Presentation

The Editor and Board of Language Teaching are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2014 Christopher Brumfit thesis award is Dr Hilde van Zeeland. The thesis was selected by an external panel of judges based on its significance to the field of second language acquisition, second or foreign language learning and teaching, originality and creativity and quality of presentation.

scholarly journals Comments and Analysis of the Main Schools of Modern Foreign Language Teaching Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yin Hua
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Level System ◽  
Teaching System ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Language Teaching Methods

<p>Modern foreign language teaching method is a diversified, multi-dimensional and multi-level system. It is helpful in improving the level of foreign language teaching in China and establishing a foreign language teaching system with Chinese characteristics to comment on and analyze some of the most influential foreign language teaching schools.</p>

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