As to Generativism, I personally believe that the fact that every language learner is highly influenced by the surroundings within which learning has taken place, whether formal or informal, affects his/her performance. No person carries out the very same cognitive processes as another one, but several people can be taught in the same classroom and be simultaneously successful if instructed in a way that fits their personal needs and their learning styles. These aspects seem to have been neglected in Chomsky’s theory about the innate faculty to learn a language (LADs) because I strongly believe that language mostly depends on interaction and negotiation of meaning.
Brunner’s concept of the Language Acquisition Support Systems (LASS) has to do with being able toresort to an affective “support wall” created by a child’s family as s/he is learning a language. Thus, children learn through error and trial, with constant monitoring and correction of the family.
I also agree with Brunner, and also with John Mac Namara when he states that children have the capacity to descipher the mearning and sense of words from the context. Children’s speech is reinvented everyday as a result of constant interaction with the environment.
I had a lot of troubles learning English, it was difficult for me to understand topics and vocabulary, in my opinion teacher don’t care about your necessities, they focus on the syllabus and they just keep teaching new topics without caring about student’s cognitive process.
ResponderEliminarLearning a language is not easy, and depends of student’s motivations, and teacher‘s methodology; Students don’t have the same ability to learn a second language, some of them may learn quick and other may have troubles learning something new, in this case teacher’s observations is very important because they have to find new way to generate knowledge without neglect students needs.
Indeed, I agree with chomsky,being that the human being born with the faculty to learn a language, it refers to the phisiologycal fact and as well to the cognitive fact, whether he/she be taugh by context or not, it's in our "ADN"; as well as we are afraid about dark, it is due to our forefathers; because when they were sleeping beasts attacked them at nights. Likewise we have devolpped this ability through the past of time in the same way, this is evolution, we started by imitating sounds long time ago until we created a language.
ResponderEliminarHowever I think chomsky talked about just first language, and of course we all have the tools to learn a second language. Nevertheless,as every activity related to human being; the context is one of the most important factors to take into account, we should be aware of pragmatic issues, and extrinsic motivations when learners are developing accuracy language, the purpose of acquire a second language is to been able to interact with others, and teachers sometimes used to forget that.
In my experience as a teacher I have seen that is very important focus on the student’s needs , is clear that not everybody learn in the same way but I am agree with each student has a different cognitive process we as a teacher offer them different methodologies, different resources, different means to they understand, and recognize that we are only a guide for them.
ResponderEliminarIs necesary to clear that the enviroment is an aspect very important to lerning both family and school play and important roll in this learning process.