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Insights on Second Language Learning

The document discusses key aspects of second language acquisition and teaching. It notes that learning a second language is a complex, long-term process that affects one's personality and way of thinking. Exposure to the target language culture influences how we think and act. While many struggle to achieve fluency, factors like motivation, self-confidence, and exposure to the language impact learning. Communicative competence, including sociolinguistic, discourse, linguistic and strategic abilities, determines how a language should be taught. Understanding language components is important to guide students' learning through meaningful communicative tasks and strategies tailored to their strengths.

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Insights on Second Language Learning

The document discusses key aspects of second language acquisition and teaching. It notes that learning a second language is a complex, long-term process that affects one's personality and way of thinking. Exposure to the target language culture influences how we think and act. While many struggle to achieve fluency, factors like motivation, self-confidence, and exposure to the language impact learning. Communicative competence, including sociolinguistic, discourse, linguistic and strategic abilities, determines how a language should be taught. Understanding language components is important to guide students' learning through meaningful communicative tasks and strategies tailored to their strengths.

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REFLECTION

WEEK 1
What I learned was that learning a second language is an ongoing,long and complex undertaking
during which one’s personality is greatly [Link] learning a second language,you don’t just
learn the grammatical patterns of the language at the same time you learn how to think in this
language and lifestyles,cultures of people who use the [Link] is more than just a means
of [Link] influences our culture and even our thought processes.A new language means,a
new culture,a new way of thinking,feeling and [Link] years of effort ,the vast majority of
language learners fail to reach fluency in their target [Link] are some factors which hinder
effective [Link] as emotional factors,motivational [Link] period,lack of self
confidence,poor attitude,materials,[Link] people can never use a language because they
spend too much time learning about the language and not enough time actually acquiring [Link] is
something shouldn’t be forgotten that language learning is more than classroom [Link]
more exposure to target language,the better language [Link] is important for second language
acquisition to be able to answer some questions like who are the learners(for example;in a village
you cannot use traffic lights to teach colours)what the subject matter is,how where and when
learning takes place,why learners are trying to acquire the second [Link] to Thomas
Kuhn teacher needs to discover the pieces of the language and then to fit the pieces [Link] the
same time teacher needs to help students to be communicative [Link] be communicative
competent means having the ability to use the language correctly and appropriately to accomplish
communication [Link] competence is made up of four competence areas:

sociolinguistic,discourse,linguistic,strategic.

Understanding of the components of language determines how you teach a [Link]-


learning process is the heart of [Link]-learning are related [Link] can be
defined as the relatively permanent change in an individual’s behavior as a result of practice or
[Link] can be defined as purposeful direction and management of the learning
[Link] is guiding and facilitating learning.

What I had difficulty in figuring out was that how can a teacher successfully perform a theory like
jigsaw puzzle,what can be done to carry out coherent and unified learning with jigsaw puzzle theory.

I suppose I need to focus more on understanding communicative components of the language due
to the fact that it determines to a large extent how you teach a language and it is nonverbal
communication which is a key to successful second language learning.

I believe I may use the components of language to determine how to teach.I may devote some
attention to nonverbal systems and cues,I may use sociolinguistic strategies and communicative
[Link] addition to these by thinking “every learner is unique” to increase effectiveness I may use
strategies according to students’intelligences(visual,verbal,logical,musical,kınesthetic).

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