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
Being give the rule or getting the rule from the examples
Cognitivism
All languages have common features
The distinction between significance and value
Behaviourism
The learner's current ability
The distinction between unconscious picking up and conscious language study
Scaffolding
Competence vs. Performance
Universal grammar
ZPD
Stimulus - Response theory
Interlanguage
Deductive vs. Inductive processing
Acquisition vs. Learning
Constructing an internal grammar
Use vs. Usage