Second Language Acquisition Theories

Matching exercise

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