Acquisition_Theories

Acquisition Theories Second Language Acquisition Theories It has been repeatedly shown in many theories that the way in which people learn secondary and tertiary languages are similar to the way people lean their primary language. Chomsky looked at syntax within languages and helped to provide a natural resource in terms of structuring research techniques and line of questioning. In studies concerning children it was found that the social environment affects language acquisition. It s also found that there is also a significant connection between language and culture. Behaviorists focus on the audiolingual method in which children first listen and speak prior to learning to read and write (drill and practice). Innatists believe in creative constructive theory in which children acquiring the second language construct their rules for language, second, hypothesis, states, acquisition, acquiring, natural, learning, children, way, theories, similar, self, process, primary, people, languages, found, concerning, between, yet, write, within, variables, understand, things, theory, tertiary, terms, techniques, syntax, studies, student, structuring, speak