Second Language Acquisitin

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Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
Second Language Acquisition
Trần Minh Lực
Lê Hữu Thịnh
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Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

Contrastive analysis is a way of comparing languages to discover potential errors.

+ What needs to be learned
+ What does not need to be learned.
 Predict areas that will be either easy or difficult for learners.
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Assumptions
1. Language is habit
2. Native language is the major source of errors
3. Errors due to the differences of languages
4. More differences, more errors
5. Differences must be learned
6. Differences are difficult, similarities are easy
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Positions about Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
Strong view
Make predictions about learning based on a comparison between two languages.
Two positions
Weak view
Begin with what learners do and then attempts to account for those errors.
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Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

The fact in actual learner production:

Je   les       vois.

I see them. (produced)

* I them see. (not produced)
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Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis


Learning was seen not as imitation but as active the rule formation.

E.g    He comed yesterday.
         I goed to work yesterday.
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Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
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