I think that we as a teachers must be aware of the differences when we talk about acquisition and learning a language. As researches expressed in the articles of the readings that the human mind is prepared to be multilingual and "the earlier, the better" is true but we must respect first the L1 in order to don't mix up both languages and have learning problems and confusions with the young learner. As we acquire the mother language being in a natural inmmersed enviroments, same way should be the acquisition of the L2. The young learner uses their right side of their brain to acquire the language whe they reach up 7 years they uses their left side of their brain which uses rational part learning patterns formal way of language. Teacher should use meaningful, contextualized enviroments in order to be sucessful to teagh the second language.
English is already an international language used by the mayority of verbal exchanges ( Native and non-native speakers). We need to be for next future to teach content based approach and also to learn another language to be multilingual person as wll teacher.
Patty
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I'd like to quote a text by which backs up what you state about language acquisition: "Is second language acquisition like or different from first language acquisition? In some respects the task would seem to be similar, regardless of which language one was acquiring. On the other hand, second language learners have the advantage of previous linguistic experience, and the potential disadvantage of interference from an established first language". McCarthy, M. 2001. Issues in Applied Linguistics. NYC: CUP.
Cognitive theory also informs language teaching in the sense that age is tied to cognition and so must be language teaching.
I am glad to find that you wrote some comments about aqcuisition and learning, and about the brain hemispheres and thier work.
I would very much like to go deeper on these issues because that shall help not only my students but also those in touch with them for they are multipliers of what the know and live.
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