Second language aquisition 3

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• language aptitude the special ability that people have in varying degrees for learning an L2
• learner language language that learners produce in speech and writing during the course of language acquisition
• learning strategy a behaviorist or mental procedure used by learners to develop interlanguage
• linguistic context the language that surrounds a particular grammatical feature and which may influence the particular form a learner chooses to use
• local errors Errors that affect single elements in a sentence, errors in the use of preposition
• markedness this refer to the general idea that some linguistic features may be more basic or natural than others
• mentalist emphasizes the learner´s innate capacity for aquiring a language
• mistakes derivations in usage that reflected learner´s inability to use what they actually know of the target language
• multidimensional model It distinguishes the developmental and variational features according to whether they are government by processing constraints or socio-psychological factors
• negative evidence/feedback information given indirectly or directly to learners that a interlanguage hypothesis is incorrect
• negative transfer language transfer that result in errors
• negotiation of meaning the interactive work that takes place between speakers when some misunderstandng occurs
• noticing the process by which learners pay consious attention to linguistic features in the input
• notice the gap the process by which learners pay consious attention to the differences between linguistic features in the input and their own output
• omission derivation that arise when learners leave out words or partof words
• operating principles the strategier children use during L1 aquisition to segment and analyse input and which account for properties of their output
• overgeneralization the oversuppliance of an interlanguage feature in context in which it does not occur in target language use He ated ice-clean, overgeneralization result in errors
• overuse the overuse of some feature where some other feature is preferred in target-language usee
• parallel distributed processing a model of a language that views language use and aquisition as involving a complex network of interconnections between units rather than rules
• pidginization the process by which pidgins contact languages are formed

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