Questões sobre Língua Inglesa e Educação

Which of the factors below has contributed most to the spread of English around the world?

When learners foreignize words (pronounce them as if was an L2 word), which competence are they resorting to?

The statements below describe different issues in second language acquisition. Write " if the statement is TRUE and ¨"if the statement is FALSE. Then choose the alternative that displays the correct sequence.

( ) It is as difficult to ¨Dget at¡¬ linguistic competence in a second language as it is in a first.

( ) The inability to produce an item also means an inability to comprehend the item.

( ) Adults and children alike appear to have the capacity to acquire a second language at any age. ( ) The variability of second language acquisition is affected by the same variables that are applicable to first language acquisition.

( ) Input is more important to second language learners than it is to first language learners.

One of the arguments against "the younger the better" statement in SLA (Second Language Acquisition) is that:

¨DThere is a biologically determined period of life when language can be acquired more easily and beyond which time language is increasingly difficult to acquire.¡¬ This statement describes a hypothesis to language acquisition called: