Introduction to
Language
Acquisition
Group 1:
Jhosua Sarte
Carmela Sardual
Andrea Gail Gener
Mark Ryan Grampa
Language Acquisition
What is Language Acquisition?
Language acquisition refers to the process of
learning a language, typically in childhood. It
encompasses everything from acquiring the basic
building blocks of language (like sounds and words)
to mastering complex grammatical structures and
understanding abstract concepts.
Language Acquisition
The Stages of Language Acquisition
Language acquisition unfolds in stages,and
understanding abstract concepts.
with children demonstrating increasingly
sophisticated language abilities as they grow:
The Stages of Language
Acquisition
● Pre-linguistic Stage: (0-12 months): Babies begin to
explore sounds, developing babbling and cooing.
● Holophrastic Stage: (12-18 months): Children start
to use single words to express complete ideas.
● Two-word Stage: (18-24 months): Children combine
two words to convey meaning, often in simple
grammatical structures.
The Stages of Language
Acquisition
● Telegraphic Stage (2-3 years): Children use short
sentences that omit function words but convey meaning.
● Early Multiword Stage (3-5 years): Children develop more
complex sentence structures, learn new vocabulary at a
rapid pace, and begin to understand grammatical rules.
● Later Language Development (5+ years): Children refine
their language skills, expanding vocabulary, mastering
complex grammar, and developing sophisticated
communicative abilities.
Child Acquisition Language
Language learning and Acquisition
The term “language learning” covers two clearly
distinct but rarely understood concepts.In English,
the first concept is called language learning, while
for the second, the term language acquisition is
used, one of which is not a natural consequence of
the other (Krashen, 1987).
Child Acquisition Language
Language Acquisition
refers to the process of natural, intuitive,
subconscious assimilation, the fruit of interaction in
real situations of human conviviality in environments
of the language and foreign culture, in which the
learner participates as an active subject.
Child Acquisition Language
Child Acquisition Language
There are four key principles to
language acquisition:
● Increase Comprehensibility
● Increase Interaction
● Increase Thinking/Study Skills
● Use the child’s native language to increase
comprehensibility
Language Acquisition Theories
How do Language Acquisition Theories explain
children language development? Three basic theories
of first language acquisition have been put forward
over the years: Behaviorist, Iniátist, and Ineraction
Behaviorist Theory For language acquisition,
behaviorists hypothesized that children learned their
first language through stimulus, response, and
reinforcement as well, postulating imitation and
association as essential processes. For example, to
learn the word ball, the child would first associate the
Bilingualism
Bilingualism is defined as the individual's ability to
comprehend and produce two natural languages,
involving neural processing, language acquisition,
memory, metalinguistic awareness, and code-
switching. The competence in both languages can
be native-like if learned together early in life.
How do we become bilingual?
People may become bilingual either by acquiring
two languages at the same time in childhood or by
learning a second language sometime after
acquiring their first language.
What makes you bilingual?
You're officially bilingual when you've achieved a
level of proficiency in a second language that
enables you to communicate effectively and
comfortably in various contexts, both formal and
informal.
Multilingualism
It is an individual or a group of person who is
capable of speaking, reading , or writing in two or
more languages.
The Multilingual Person
The terms bilingual and trilingual are used to
describe comparable situations in which two or
three languages are involved. A multilingual person
is generally referred to as a polyglot.
The Multilingual Person
Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained
at least one language during childhood, first
language (L1). The first language (the mother
tongue) is acquir even without formal education.
What is Second Language
Acquisition
Is the process by which people learn a second
language. Second language is also the scientific
discipline devoted to studying that process.
Development stages of second
language acquisition
(1) Stage One: The receptive or preproduction
stage. This stage can last from ten hours to six
months. Students have often have up to 500
“receptive” words (words they can understand, but
may not be comfortable using) and can understand
new words that are made comprehensible to them.
Development stages of second
language acquisition
(2) Stage Two: The early production stage. The
early production stage can last additional six months
after the initial stage. Students have usually
developed close 1,000 receptive/active words (that
is, they are able to understand and use words).
Development stages of second language
acquisition
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