Studies Of Language Acquisition

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Studies of Language Acquisition: Part 1 of 3 Whitney McKim ELL242: Understanding & Teaching English Language Instructor Cheryl Aidikonis February 7, 2012 Studies of Language Acquisition: Part 1 of 3 Theorists and educators have long studied the native English-speaking students, and produced substantial findings for the English Language Learner (ELL) and the English Second Language (ESL) student. Current studies and theories point to the precursors, such as methods of instruction, of early English language as a means to possible success. Studies and research projects span the scientific world and include specialty genres such as developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, generative grammar, and linguistics [ (Freeman & Freeman, 2004) ]. The majority of the learning and teaching communities agree on several aspects of language acquisition however, they disagree on several as well. However, despite the debate all can agree that humans were born to talk. Language proficiency and achievement depend on several factors including but not limited to biological, psychological, physiological, and neurological [ (Freeman & Freeman, 2004) ]. Furthermore, the ability to speak goes further than the physical capabilities, in fact depends greatly on an individual’s environment, education, and caregivers. However, despite all of these variances it is only because of the specifically designed brain built for language that makes it a possibility for a single soul to utter their first phoneme. Furthermore, specialists and scientists’ not only debate over how an individual learns oral language but how they learn written language as well. For years and decades, the debate of how such things occur has sparked preferences in the education community. Preferences including how to instruct young and the aging on how to read, write, and understand

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