Notes for

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Notes for Language, Learning and Teaching

• Chapter One of Brown

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Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

• Few if any people achieve fluency in a foreign
  language within the confines of the classroom.
  (Brown, p. 1)
• Crucial Questions (p. 2-3)
• Which ones are most important?
• Key definitions that will influence how you
  approach the classroom
• Definition of language
• Definition of learning
• Definition of teaching

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Schools of Thought in SLA

• Behaviorism
• Generative-Transformational
• Constructivism

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Language Teaching Methodology

• Cyclical nature
• 1st example Grammar-Translation