Wednesday, June 13, 2012


Discuss what do you see as the relationship between second language acquisition and second language teaching?

I’ve had the opportunity to be an English teacher for 8 years and I’ve taught children and teenagers,  this has allowed me appreciate the process throughout  kids and teenagers learn a language and I absolutely agree with  those statements which confirm   that teacher leads  students to acquire the language, because the first time a kid listens, they feel curiosity and get engaged, even though they  had never listen or had a class. This feeling is the consequence of parent’s words that transmit their children the importance of learning a language   as a result they are willing to learn, but at that moment’s teacher’s responsibility plays out an essential role. Kids usually have all the desire to learn they participate they do not care if they made mistakes; children’s attitude is completed positive, despite the fact most of the time they do not have who to practice with, all of the this happens only if the student has had positive experiences with the language so second language teachers are complete involved in a process because teachers even though they have the power in class they need to understand the students’ background and respect their weakness; teachers have the responsibility to investigate the type of group you are dealing with.

How are second language acquisition and second language teaching different?

First of all the roles that every person has in this process allow us to establish some differences for example students are the main actors in the language acquisition process, they usually receive information, they belong to diverse cultural background with their own interests, on the other hand teachers are the ones who develop the teaching process their responsibility is to provide information and help students build their knowledge similar to the students they have a background. The teacher needs to have methods to develop the teaching activities

How might they affect each other and how might the study of one affect the study of the other?

When second language acquisition is a formal process they cannot be separated. They need each other, in fact teaching gives the status of formal, Second language teaching study might have great a consecuences on second language acquistions, because the better a teacher is prepared the more oustanding he becomes in his labor and better results they have. 

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