Language acquisition
Loading...
Link to this comment:
Uploader Comments (lingosteve)
All Comments (23)
-
you made me laugh . But yeah too much jargon to learn :)
-
You are better than stephen krashen, steve
-
I understand what you're saying, but I think Krashen uses the term because people associate "learn" with the sort of learning done in schools. More like "memorize". He used acquisition to describe what you do at lingQ: learn naturally from input. Or, in other words, acquisition is largely unconscious, whereas "learning" is conscious and deliberate, and associated with traditional grammar/translation study of foreign languages.
2 years ago 2
-
this was supposed to be a reply to ILuvEire
-
thats what i was going to say!
100% agree
-
thank you for reminding us to keep language learning real. this was something i needed to hear.
- 10:40Learning Italian, Korean and Portuguese.by lingosteve700 views
- 4:14Language learning basics, again and again.by lingosteve1,048 views
- 7:45Learn the basics in the language first? Really?by lingosteve1,703 views
- 12:42How I went about learning French and Spanishby lingosteve984 views
- 9:56なぜ英語が難しいか？by lingosteve15,453 views
- 6:21First Language Acquisitionby ssocrchic171,088 views
- 3:19Part 4/4 Christopher & Language Acquisition (Li...by newrationalism8,714 views
- 2:27Mulher Melancia ensina truque da dança do Créuby ig22,134,694 views
- 9:47El placer de aprender idiomasby lingosteve12,280 views
- 9:22Language Acquisition: How Do We Learn?by Rasclut1,139 views
- 8:41Second Language Acquisition from tesolmaster.comby tesolmasterdotcom6,364 views
- 10:00Natural approach for learning a second languageby titowismann12,638 views
- 9:40Limits to Krashen.by lingosteve4,625 views
- 12:16How Children Acquire and Produce Language (BBC,...by intrepidpolymath22,042 views
- 6:36Language Acquisition, Part Threeby SueLorenson9,691 views
- 9:52Language Acquisition 4by EvolvedAtheist9,895 views
- 7:34A MUST SEE Interview of Noam Chomskyby promonument414,685 views
- 6:26Future of language learningby lingosteve2,263 views
- 5:25TPR and Language Acquisitionby elafuen85,188 views
I totally agree, there's too much terminology to language learning before you actually get onto learning the language.
I learnt French and German at school both from the same tutor and I find it hard to pick up a book on my new chosen language of Finnish because there's simply too much background reading to do and too much fluff around everything.
I'd be interested to hear what you think of the idea of Mind Maps though, something I've seen mentioned a few places and I'm not sure what to think.
dsample 2 years ago
I have never gotten into mind maps. I just strikes me as a little artificial, an unnecessary abstraction. But then I have not really spent a lot of time on them.
lingosteve 2 years ago
generally i think acquisition is a term I reserve for language development in younger children anyways. enjoyed the rant. keep 'em coming lingosteve!
eikoma 2 years ago
acquisition may be reserved for the language development in children but I see no reason for that. Our brains learn, they do not acquire things. Learn does not mean school or a classroom. Acquire means deliberately taking something and keeping it, and that is not what learning is all about. Sorry, I do not like the term. But it is not a big deal.
lingosteve 2 years ago
For instance even though russian is my main language that I speak in, and I heard you say once "declension table" - I have no idea what that is and hope never to know.
yuriythebest 2 years ago
Some terms are needed. Verb, noun, adjective, pronoun. There are few terms that help because they describe something that exists. The fact that nouns change their endings in some languages is a fact. It is called declension. We decline nouns. A table is a table. So I have no trouble with declension tables. But "interlanguage?"
lingosteve 2 years ago