Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis (1997)
New Words
Poverty of the stimulus: The inability of input to provide the linguistic information needed for language acquisition
Positive evidence: Input that shows the learner what is grammatical but not what is ungrammatical.
Markedness: This refers to the general idea that some linguistic features may be more ‘basic’ or ‘natural’ than others. More technical definitions based on linguistic theory also exist.
Main points
Universal Grammar (UG) by Noam Chomsky’s theory
-Children learning their L1 must rely on innate knowledge of language.
-UG is not available to adult L2 learners.
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i am a malaysian student, majoring in Second Language Acquisition. this is my 2nd year of learning SLA. can you elaborate more on linguistics aspects of interlanguage. does it involves only with UG?
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