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This module discuss about language acquisition and language learning.
The factors influencing the acquisition of a language,
like the learner factors, environmental factors and infrastructural factors
are dealt in detail.
Acquisition and learning.
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquired the capacity to
perceive and comprehend language. As well as to produce and use language.
Acquisition is implicit and subconscious which take place in an informal situation.
According to Stephen Christian 1985, language acquisition does not require
extensive use of conscious grammatical rules and tedious drill.
Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language,
natural communication in which speakers are connected,
not with the form of their entrances but with the messages they are convenient
and understanding.
Language acquisition encompasses the development of
four interdependent systems.
Pragmatic: communicative use of language in a social context;
Phonological: perception and production of sounds to form words;
Semantics: processing of meaning
and grammatical use of syntactic and morphological rules to combine words
into meaningful sentences.
The phonological and grammatical systems constitute the language form.
The pragmatic system describes
how language should be adapted
to specific social situations
in order to convey emotions
and reinforce meaning.
The term acquisition is used for L1
and the term learning is associated with L2.
Children acquire language through a subconscious process
during which they are unaware of grammatical rules,
that is no deliberator for to learn the language.
They pick up language in informal situations.
Language acquisition is implicit, and effortless as meaningful communication
occurs in natural environment.
While communicating the message in the text is given more important
rather than the form.
... connected through feedback or when they hear the correct usages.