"Learners have two kinds of linguistic information at their disposal. The first is known as positive eveidence and refers to that limited set of (generally) well-formed utterances to which learners are exposed. The second, negative evidence, consist of information provided to a learner that her or his utterance is deviant in some way." p.346 of Second Language Acquisition - Gass, Selinker
Without first positive input ie. the ideal form, there is nothing to target, therefore no target form to acquire. Negative input can only come after one has first heard a target form to attempt.
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ReplyDeleteOkay so, it looks like we need 2 people for the opening and only 1 for the rebuttal. Sharon and JB - which one of you would like to do the rebuttal?
Here is my suggestion for organizing. Please feel free to change!
Opening: Kym and Sharon/JB - each of us summarize at least 3 articles (since we need 6 references) and combine our summaries to create an opening statement. I have 3 that I think will work and a few others that are "secondary". Let me know if you have others. The three primary ones are:
The Contribution of the theory of UG to our understanding of the acquisition of French as a second language (the one Heejung summarized)
Some implications of research in SLA for Foreign Language Teaching, and
An article I found on Google about Chomsky and Nativist Theory.
The secondary ones are:
Second Language Acquisition Research: Staking Out the Territory,
Evolutionary biology of language and
History of Psychology.
Rebuttal: Sharon/JB - summarize some rebuttals to the arguments you think are most likely to come up, then we can add to it during our discussion time.
Closing: Heejung - Summarize what the nativist theory is and outline some of the points we are making. This is possibly just a summary of our opening statements?? We can add to it after we hear the other team's side.
How does this sound? Any suggestions?
At this moment I cant think of the article I read, but I really do believe it should be included. It was well written. Also, Heejung mentioned to me that she would prefer not to do the closing.
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