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