thenatureoflearnerlanguage二语习得.ppt

Errors and error analysis: Read the book from page 15 to the first paragraph on page 18, and discuss in groups , then try to answer the following questions: (5 mins) Errors and error analysis: Why L2 acquisition should foucus on errors? Raising the important question of ‘ Why do learners make errors?’ Useful for teachers to know what errors learners make. Making errors may help learners to learn when they self-correct the errors they make. What’s the first step in analysing learner errors? How to identify errors? What is errors? What is mistakes? How can we distinguish them? Describing errors: Error evaluation: What are the major points in this section? What are the different opinions on universal “natural order”? Some think that the order of accuracy differs from the order of acquisition. eg, Sometimes learners begin using a structure accurately early on only to start making errors with it later. Some think that the order varies according to the learner’s first language. eg, The person whose first language is Japanese perform plural-s very poorly, much less accurately than irregular past. That means he didn’t follow the “natural order” P25 The analysis of para1: ①Learner language is systematic. → Learners use the same grammatical form. ②Learner language is variable. → Learners employ one form and sometimes another. P26 Para3: 1. According to what context do learners vary in their use of the L2? → linguistic context and situational context, psycholinguistic context. 2. What is linguistic context? Can you give some example? → See in P26 , para2 P27 Para4: Read the example of Jeans transcription, what can we find? First, irregular verbs in the unplanned narrative . Second, mark verbs correctly for past tense in the planned narrative. P28 Para3: 1.Whats the characteristic of any natural language? Forms realize meaning in a systematic way. 2.Whats the meani