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In this slideshow, we will learn about different perspectives regarding input in Second Language Acquisition. This is part of the applied linguistics seminar offered at Universidad del Valle.
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Input and sla
Facultad de Humanidades
Escuela de Ciencias del LenguajeSeminario de Lingüística Aplicada
Prof. Carlos Mayora
Octubre 2014
introduction
• In your process of learning a foreign language, what has been the main source of exposure to the target language?
• Apart from classes, where else can you get in touch with the language?
• How important do you think that contact is?
input
Any samples of the target language the learner is exposed to.
Types of input
Input
Medium
Oral
Written
Multimodal
Nature
Authentic
Modified
Instructional
Oral input
Written input
Characteristics of input
Spoken language Written language
Faster.
Phonological processes (addition, elision, aspiration, etc.)
Ephemeral
Delivery rate control by speaker/source
More redundant (usually)
Permanent
Graphic representation
Delivery rate control by reader.
Less redundant.
More lexically dense
Multimodal input
Characteristics of input
Multimodal Language
Combines different media (text, audio, image).
Advantages: it may facilitate acquisition in as much thedifferent media contribute to meaning.
It might enhance interest (activating attention).
Disadvantages: it may hamper acquisition in as muchdifferent media compete for attentional resources.
If text, sound and image do not agree, it might makecomprehension difficult.
Types of input
Input
Authentic
Produced in the course of
communication
Real (spoken or written) language
Modified
Baby talk
Foreigner talk
InstructionalText book language
Characteristics of foreigner talk
• Slow speech rate.• Loud speech.• Long pauses.• Simple vocabulary (fewer slang, high
frequency words).• More repetitions.• Elaborations (definitions and explanations).
Gass and Selinker, 2008.
Related concepts
• Comprehensible input
• Apperceived input
• Intake
• Noticing
Comprehensible input is…
• …engaging.• …interesting.• …relevant to the learner.• …just a notch above the
learner current level of competence (i+1)
• …abundant.Krashen, 1985.
apperCeived input is…
…any structure in the input that is “noticed” because itis identified and related to some form of prior knowledge.
Gass and Selinker, 2008.
Factors that influence apperception
Gass and Selinker, 2008.
Apperceived input
Prior knowledge
Attention
Affect
Frequency
Saliency
Language Learner
Linguistictypology
Delivery
intake is…
What is actually internalized from the input… the samples from the input that are actually integrated by the learner into his or her “grammar”
Corder, 1967 (cited in Gass and Selinker, 2008).
From input to intake
• Attention is neccessary for input to become intake.
• Learners process input for meaning first.
• Learner usually process the first and last elements in an utterance.
• Meaning and grammar compete for attentional resources.
VanPattern, 2002 (cited in Mitchell and Myles, 2004).
notiCing is…
The process of bringing elements in the input to focal attention and the condition that allows conversion of input to intake…
Schmidt, 2002 (cited in Mitchell and Myles, 2004).
conclusions
Foreign language teachers should…
references
• Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2008). Second languageacquisition. An introductory course (thirdedition). New York: Routledge.
• Krashen, S. (1985). The Input Hypothesis. New York: Longman.
• Mitchell, R. & Myles, F. (2004) Second language learning theories (second edition). London: Hodder Arnold.
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