Second Language Acquisition Theories

Matching exercise

ELT Concourse home
Drag and drop the items on the right to match the items on the left.
The distinction between what we can say and what we do say
The distinction between significance and value
The distinction between unconscious picking up and conscious language study
All languages have common features
Behaviourism
Cognitivism
Scaffolding
Being give the rule or getting the rule from the examples
The learner's current ability
Acquisition vs. Learning
ZPD
Interlanguage
Deductive vs. Inductive processing
Universal grammar
Use vs. Usage
Constructing an internal grammar
Competence vs. Performance
Stimulus - Response theory