SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Firstable, I consider that it is fundamental to know what second language acquisition means; According to Wikipedia Second-language acquisition or second-language learning is the process by which people learn a second language. In other words, we can say that the acquisition of a target language is the process in which people are involved to learn a language.

Meanwhile, Second language teaching is the process of teaching a Second Language to people. I consider that both are closely together because they share the idea of learning a target language in order to use it for many different purposes: for instance, communication, education, business and so forth.   

The main difference between both is that in second language acquisition; students have freedom to select in which context they want to learn the target language, while in second language teaching the role of the teacher it is elemental since they are in charge of creating an appropriate environment to teach the target language.

To conclude, I consider that both plays a basic role in order to learn a Second Language; I mean, on one hand, learners are responsible for learning SL accurately, whereas, on the other hand educators  are  in charge for approaching the target language to  their pupils in terms of creating the enough motivation to learn  it.

Author: Renato Granda