Second Language Acquisition Theories

Matching exercise

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