The Two Faces of SLA: Mental Representation and Skill

In this essay, I argue for viewing mental representation and skill as distinct components of language acquisition. My claim is that language is not a monolithic entity—not a new concept, but one that is often overlooked by instructors and some scholars. I examine language as being (minimally) composed of mental representation and skill. Representation refers to the abstract and implicit knowledge that underlies all language. Skill refers to the use of language, especially fluency (the intersection of speed and accuracy). By thinking about language as at least the distinction between representation and skill, we might better sort out some of the issues related to adult SLA, namely the role that instruction has, and what instruction can actually impact.En este trabajo defiendo el supuesto de que tanto la representación mental como las destrezas (lingüísticas) deben ser tomadas como componentes diferenciados de la adquisición lingüística. Mi tesis es que el lenguaje no es una entidad monolítica –tesis no nueva, pero frecuentemente dejada de lado por profesores y estudiosos. Analizo el lenguaje como un compuesto de representación mental y destrezas. La representación se refiere al conocimiento abstracto e implícito que subyace en el lenguaje. Las destrezas hacen referencia al uso de la lengua, especialmente a la fluidez (intersección entre velocidad y precisión). Entendiendo el lenguaje de esta manera, distinguiendo entre representación y destrezas, será posible superar algunos de los problemas relativos al aprendizaje de lenguas por los adultos, y muy especialmente el cometido de la enseñanza y lo que ésta puede producir

Liaisons: An Introduction to French

LIAISONS is an innovative beginning-level French program grounded in principles of communicative language teaching and research in second language acquisition. Components of the program are carefully linked together, allowing you to make connections with your classmates, your instructor, your community, and the French-speaking world. With an engaging mystery film shot on location in Montreal, Quebec, and Paris, the program provides a rich array of communicative activities designed to stimulate interaction. LIAISONS guides you to first discover new vocabulary and grammar through different mediums, then connect form and meaning through a set of confidence-building activities, and finally, actively create language.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_books/1012/thumbnail.jp

Encore: Intermediate French

ENCORE is an intermediate-level proficiency- and communicative-oriented program. Paired with an engaging mystery and suspense film of the same name, ENCORE is guided by principles of communicative language teaching and research in second language acquisition. Topics and activities are designed to engage students in higher-level thinking while at the same time providing focused work on aspects of language that instructors in a second-year college-level French course expect to find.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_books/1011/thumbnail.jp

Second language acquisition-foreugn language learning/ Edit.: Bill Van Patten; James F. Lee

xii, 277 hal.; 25 cm

Second language acquisition-foreugn language learning/ Edit.: Bill Van Patten; James F. Lee

xii, 277 hal.; 25 cm

Liaisons: An Introduction to French

LIAISONS is an innovative beginning-level French program grounded in principles of communicative language teaching and research in second language acquisition. Components of the program are carefully linked together, allowing you to make connections with your classmates, your instructor, your community, and the French-speaking world. With an engaging mystery film shot on location in Montreal, Quebec, and Paris, the program provides a rich array of communicative activities designed to stimulate interaction. LIAISONS guides you to first discover new vocabulary and grammar through different mediums, then connect form and meaning through a set of confidence-building activities, and finally, actively create language.From Wong/Weber-Fève/Ousselin/VanPatten. Liaisons, 2E. © 2017 South-Western, a part of Cengage, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions</p

Encore: Intermediate French

ENCORE is an intermediate-level proficiency- and communicative-oriented program. Paired with an engaging mystery and suspense film of the same name, ENCORE is guided by principles of communicative language teaching and research in second language acquisition. Topics and activities are designed to engage students in higher-level thinking while at the same time providing focused work on aspects of language that instructors in a second-year college-level French course expect to find.From Wong/Weber-Fève/Lair/VanPatten. Encore Intermediate French, Student Text, 1E. © 2018 South-Western, a part of Cengage, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions</p