Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language - Reading 4, Ejercicios de Idioma Inglés

¡Descarga Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language - Reading 4 y más Ejercicios en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! 1 SAMY BRUGES erasmus ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE : READING 4 READING 4: Ellis, R. (1997). The nature of learner language. In R. Ellis, Second Language Acquisition (Ch. 2. pp. 15-30). 1. Describe the difference between global errors and local errors and give an example of each. While global errors violate the overall structure of a sentence, making it difficult to process, local errors only affect a single constituent in the sentence and are less likely to create any processing problems which makes it easier to understand the speaker than global errors. The policeman was in this corner whistle is a global error because the entire sentence is wrong, whether it be the tense ( was whistling) or the overall structure ( the policeman was whistling in this corner). The policeman was in this corner whistle can also be a local error if we focus on grammar in the sense that the tense is wrong. It should be was whistling. 2. Explain the concept of variability and give examples of different types. The learner language is variable, it is a fact. Errors may come from learners wanting to employ different one grammatical form or the other. Language can be systematic since variability can also be systematic. There are five types of settings which can influence a learner. According to linguistic context, leaners vary in their use of the L2. For example, their choice of using a past tense marker is up to the verb they are using, whether it refers to an event, an activity or a state. In the two following sentence, an adverb of frequency can trigger another linguistic form: George playing football (George played football all the time) George usually play football every day. (George usually played Football every day Learners also vary the linguistic forms they use according to the situational context. In this particular context, there are no differences between native speakers and learners. The latter is able to produce a native-like speech using colloquial expressions: My kid’s a real pain these days. However, they can also showcase a native-like speech when they speak to someone they do not know very well: My daughter can be very troublesome these days. Learners vary their use of language similarly. They are more likely to use the correct target-language forms in general contexts and non-target forms in informal contexts. Another important factor that accounts for the systematic nature of variability is the psycholinguistic context – whether learners have the opportunity to plan their production. For example, when a speaker is aware that they are being recorded, their