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This document discusses factors that influence first and second language acquisition in children. It explains that a first language is acquired naturally from birth while a second language requires conscious learning. The first language is acquired rapidly in early childhood, while second language proficiency takes more time and effort. Key differences include how the languages are acquired, the role of age and motivation, and the impact of one's native language.

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Language Arts

This document discusses factors that influence first and second language acquisition in children. It explains that a first language is acquired naturally from birth while a second language requires conscious learning. The first language is acquired rapidly in early childhood, while second language proficiency takes more time and effort. Key differences include how the languages are acquired, the role of age and motivation, and the impact of one's native language.

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TEACHING ENGLISH

IN THE
FASHION GENERAL
ELEMENTARY GRADES
(Language Arts)
Language is the most significant aspect which makes us

different from all other species. Accordingly, language

aquisition is the most impresive aspect of human

development both in psychological and cognitve

perspective.
• A first language is the mother tounge or native language of a person while a second
language is a language a person learns in order to communicate with the native speaker
of that language.
• The first language is like an instinct which is triggered by birhe and developed with the
experience of being exposed to it. A second language is a personal choice of a person.
• There is no other alternative to a first language. A person cannot decide his/her first
language. It comes to him/her as an inheritance/legacy/birthright. On the other hand, a
second language is always fixed by the person.
• The aquiring process of the first language is very rapid while learning process of the
second language can vary from language to language and from person to person, but can
never be as rapid as the first language aquisition.
• The first language is ‘acquired’ and the second language is learned. The
difference between these two words describes the qualities of these two
languages.
• A first language is completely acquired with 100% proficiency within 6 years
from the birth. However, a second language can never be learned as efficiently
as a first language; though good competence can be achieved in the second
language, the process is slow.
• The first language acquisition is always natural and there is no need for
instruction in acquiring it. But a second language learning is not natural and it
needs continuous and instruction.
• The first language acquisition begins with telegraphic speech. The term
‘telegraphic speech’ deriving from the word ‘telegram’ was coined by Roger
Brown, an American psycholinguist, 1963. It refers to the two-word a child can
utter when s/he is 18 to 24 months of age.
• The first language is a natural part of a person’s everyday life. but the second
language is a new aspect of person’s life if s/he chooses it to be.
• The first language does not require any conscious effort; the acquisition
process of the first language is subconcious. The second language requires
constant concious effort so that the learners can internalize the structures of the
second language.
Some factors of difference for the first language and the second language.

AGE:
PERSONALITY:
It is the most important factor that makes a
A child’s personality does not usually
second language totally different from the
make that much of difference in the
first language. Children of the age of 6 who
acquisition of the first language, but it
have already acquired full proficiency in
makes a huge diffeence in the learning
their first language are most capable of
process of the second language. In the
learning a second language. Adults usually
second language process, the learners
find it difficult to learn a new language when
with an introvert personality usually
they become too accustomed to their
make slow progress than the learners
first/native language.
with an extrovert personality.
CULTURE:

The first language is the most important factors of a MOTIVATION:


person’s culture. However, the second language has
some effects on the culture of a person but not It is an important factor for the
significant enough to be counted as an element of second language learning. A learner
that culture. with good motivation to learn a
second language is likely to learn
that language faster. But the
acquisition of the first language
MOTHER TOUNGE: does not require any motivation
because it is a natural phenomenon.
The first language is the mother tounge of a person. The first language is acquired
The second language learning depends a lot on the subsconciously and there is no need
structures of the first language. If the structure of the for motivation to acquire it.
first language is similar to the second, it will be easy
and fast for the learners to internalize it.
1. Exposure to
the New
Language

4. The Top 4 Factors That


2. The Age of
Learner’s Influence Language the Learner
Motivation
Learning in Children

3. The
Learner’s
Native
Language

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