Blog Entry 2
Researches
of strategies used in the classroom have long been a staple in education. In
fact research of strategies is why the education field keeps growing with new
ideas and new ways to teach emerging children. The research of education
strategies helps teachers, administrators and parents come up with the best
strategy they think will help their children or students learn most efficient. One
topic in the education field that has been getting a lot of attention is second
language acquisition. Some research questions that may challenge SLA, “suggest
that the challenges that second language learners face may be due to age
effects, the existence of an entrenched first language grammar, L1-influenced
processing preferences, as well cultural and personal motivation factors among
others.” (Costa, 2014). These research
questions should be the ones that guide teachers to want to find the best
strategies to help these second language learners. The best they can so that a
second language can be learned at a much faster rate, with the correct fluency
and pronunciation.
Research
impacts teaching today in many diffenrt aspects, but one aspect I found in my
research was about speech. Lomba states that “speech is fundamental in language
acquisition” and learners excel in language acquisition when they apply what
they learn as they learn it. (2012). this statement shows that research has
some impact on second language acquisition. Knowing that speech is fundamental to
learning a new language, teachers should take this into consideration. Teachers
in should incorporate speech into second language learners rhetoric as soon as
possible so that students can make the biggest strides when learning a new
language.
Another topic teachers should practice
is attrition, or the loss of a language. When students begin to learn a new
language they tend to forget their original language and focus on the new
language so that they can learn it quickly. As Schmid describes, “This suggests
that attrition is the outcome of two systems of linguistic knowledge
interacting, to some degree, in language processing during production and
comprehension, and does not change the underlying knowledge system.” (Schmid,
2011). Just as Schmid states in her article, learning a new language will merge
with the old language at some point. But it’s the teacher to practice ways to
break attrition from happening. So the research of attrition in second language
acquisition is a great practice for teachers to use.
Overall
I think that second language acquisition has a lot of research that impacts
teaching. As teachers use the information given, they will see a correlation as
their students gain their new language faster and then before. The research given
will also just help teachers learn the best procedures to teach a second language
and the best practices. Like practices of speech, or vocabulary, repetition or
any other strategy used to acquire a second language. So with the research of
second language acquisition, better teaching and learning will be available.
References
Albert
Costa, Núria Sebastián-Gallés, How does the bilingual experience sculpt the
brain?, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014, 15, 5, 336
Five
Stages of Second Language Acquisition. (n.d.). Retrieved September 24, 2017,
from http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/news/five-stages-of-second-language-acquisition/
Monika
Schmid, Barbara K¨opke. Second language acquisition and attrition. Language
Interaction Acquisition, 2011, 2 (2), pp.185-196.
