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Q1 Key term lang research: Property Theory
A theory that sets out to model language structure. Modelling the nature of the language system which is to be acquired.
e.g.: Universal Grammar
Q1 Key term lang research: Transition Theory
A theory that describes how knowledge changes over time and language develops. In language acquisition, the system is a learner and the changes in state of knowledge, or competence.
E.g.: the traditional phases in a child's early language acquisition when a child moves from the pre-word stage; cooing to babbling to 1-word stage.
Q1 Key term lang research: Rationalist Position
Philosophical standpoint that values reason as a source of knowledge. Learning a language is a process of acquiring conscious control of these patterns of a L2.
e.g.: Problem solving taks in the classroom, evidenced based learning.
Q1 Key term lang research: Competence
Knowing the language (phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and morphology) without actually doing something with it (performance).
e.g.: knowing grammatical rules (He/she/it verb + s)
Q1 Key term lang research: Performance
Term to describe any actual use (production and comprehension) of language, also in class.
e.g.: projects like 'Taaldorp', going on school trips to England (or other English speaking countries), online chatting.
Q1 Key term lang research: Interlanguage
An 'in-between' system in transition towards a native-like target. Learners do not merely copy what native speakers do but create an entirely new language system unique to themselves.
e.g.: native speaker, child using the rule 'ed' when they express the events happened in the past. Street language for instance 'ich nicht hehe', he goed to school yesterday.
Q1 Key term lang research: Systematicity
Regularities in a learner's use of language.
e.g.: phonetics [u] in but. Grammatical order: do/does/did in questions: Cycles he? Grammatical order of adverbs of frequency; from Dutch. He watches always ...
Q1 Key term lang research: Variability
Instability in interlanguage grammars, where a rule or structure is employed inconsistently.
e.g.: students sometimes using the 3rd person singular correctly, sometimes incorrectly.
Q1 Key term lang research: Modularity
The human mind comprises a number of distinct models, language being one of them, language in turn comprises a number of modules (syntax, phonology ...).
e.g.: different part of the brain takes care of different skills.
Q1 Key term lang research: Creativity
The ability to use a linguistic system to produce and comprehend novel utterances (=new things).
e.g.: when pupils have to describe an object without preparing, the pupils will produce language consisting of what is learned before (basic vocabulary).
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