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Approaches in Second Language Acquisition

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Barriers to Language Learning and Acquisition

Learning a second language isn’t easy. There is a lot that can get in the way.  It isn’t as automatic or sure as we’d suppose.  Depending on the person, there can be some high barriers to learning another language.

I’m teaching a unit on this in a certificate course and thought I’d make my own list. (yes, could have flipped open my Gass and Selinker but then I wouldn’t be learning anything, would I!?) I’d love it if you could read and add something I missed or tell us which you think is the most important to spend time diminishing. I put them into 5 categories.

Barriers to Language Acquisition and Learning

Social

- peer group
- socio-economic status
- L1 education and literacy
- parental/family support
- access and support

Psycho / Emotional

- affective factors (anxiety, social bias)
- self belief
- motivation (low intrinsic and extrinsic forces)
- attitude towards language and learning
- social disposition / character

Biological

- psycho motor skills
- cognitive functioning
- L1 development / childhood developmental factors
- physical impairments (deaf, blind etc…)
- psychological fitness
- age and health

Pedagogical

- type and method of instruction
- improper materials and curriculum
- little access to input (native speakers / audio material)
- school and classroom culture
- lack of learning skills, strategies
- teacher/student relationship
- planning and use of time

Cultural

- language transfer and interference (L1-L2 closeness)
- cultural values regarding risk taking, openess
- government policy and investment
- dislocation, movement, war

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The Secret Circle

 

Set in the fictional town of Chance Harbor, Washington, the series revolves around six teenage witches who form an infamous coven known as 'The Secret Circle'.

Cassie Blake is a sixteen-year old troubled teenager who is learning to adjust to her new life in Chance Harbor, after the tragic death of her mother, Amelia. Orphaned and deeply saddened, Cassie moves in with her warm and loving grandmother, Jane. After being enrolled into a local high school, Cassie comes into contact with five unlikely friends, Adam, Diana, mean-girl Faye, her sidekick Melissa, and a brooding loner Nick. After her new friends explain that they are all descended from a powerful lineage of witches, and that they need her in order to complete their circle, Cassie refuses to believe them - until Adam shows her how to unlock her magical powers. However, it isn't until Cassie discovers a message from her mother in an old leather-bound book of spells, that she understands her true and dangerous destiny. What Cassie and the others don't yet know is that darker powers are at play, powers that might be linked to the adults in the town, including Diana's father and Faye's mother - and that the death of Cassie's mother might not have been an accident.

www.cwtv.com/shows/the-secret-circle

The Walking Dead Season 2

This is one bloody season you shouldn't dare miss. If your hearts screamed in season 1, well, they will burst this time. I am already at the 3rd episode for this season and I'm telling you it's worth the shout. This second season begins with Grimes and the survivors choosing to leave Atlanta to the walkers and head to Fort Benning. Along the way, they come across a traffic jam of vehicles on I-85. The group loots several vehicles and hide as walkers approach; Sophia runs off into the woods. The remaining group deals with interpersonal relationships while a search is performed. The searchers come across a deer and Carl is shot when he approaches. They need to save two kids. And they don't have a choice. 

Alone

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then--in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life--was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

by Edgar Allan Poe

Eng 103 First Assignment

Campus Journalism
Answer the following in a short-sized bond paper

      

1.    What is Media? Media Education?

2.       How is Journalism defined?

3.       Prepare a concept map on the functions of the Campus Paper to the students and the school or community.

4.       Bring 2 sample copy of a school paper. One, published 5-10 years ago. The other, a recently published paper.

See you November 12, 2011 @ NAC 102, 12n

Eng 111 First Assignment

Theatre and Drama

Research on the following topics

Kahal--------Ancient Greek

Bernardo---Roman

Yasay-------Medieval

Tolentino---Renaissance

Gonzales--Neo-Classical

 -Prepare a brief timeline of the most significant events that took part of this period.

2.      - Bullet the characteristics of their drama in this era

3.     -  Identify the most important plays and playwrights.

4.      - Prepare a synopsis of one drama during the era and brief information about it.

5.      - Be prepared to present your topic to the class on November 12, 2011. Prepare and photocopy your cheat-sheets to be distributed to the entire class.