Language Acquisition 1

Exercise 5: Knowledge of Language Acquisition

Introduction
In this exercise, you will use your knowledge of language acquistion to explain three terms from current literature on language acquistion, methodology, and approaches, and instructional techniques. In your response, you will give examples appropriate to your target language context and instructional level. You will be asked to type your response in English to three prompts.

Criteria for Scoring

In order to satisfy the highest level of the scoring rubric, your responses must provide clear, consistent, and convincing evidence of the following:

• thoughtful and accurate explanation of three terms from language acquisiton, methodology, and approaches, and instructional techniques

• relevant and meaningful examples appropriate to the teacher's target language and instructional level that clearly illustrate the terms, and

• an informed and tightly connected analysis of how each term is related to students' acquisition of competence in a second language

Directions

You may preview all of the prompts. Once you've finished a question, you may not go back to it.

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