Second Language Acquisition Theories

Matching exercise

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