Language Acquisition: Exposure, Form, and Error
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Unit 10: Exposure and Focus on Form
What are Exposure and Focus on Form?
- Exposure: Learning a language by hearing and/or reading it, without studying it
- We then learn the language by picking it up (learn without realizing it) → we learn our first language like this
- Focus on form: Notice how a language is pronounced and written, and how its grammar and vocabulary are formed and used
- This is how we learn a foreign language
* In order to learn a language, it is necessary to interact
Key Concepts
Main ways in which we learn a language:
- Language acquisition (picking up language)
- Exposure (inside and outside the classroom)
- Teachers can use comprehension or language tasks, and graded readers
- Silent period
- We need to hear and read the language just beyond our