lunes, 23 de abril de 2012

•Focus on the language learner: motivation, styles and strategies
This was the last chapter that we saw what are the factors of L2 learning and also what are the motivations in learning L2. And we also saw the Characteristics outside the teachers control age and gender language aptitude

Focus on the language learner: motivation, styles and strategies

domingo, 22 de abril de 2012

•Sociolinguistics
In this chapter we saw that Sociolinguistics is the study of the linguistic indicators of culture and power. We also saw Idiolect and sociolect and the descriptive tools of language variation. 

Sociolinguistics

•Psycholinguistics
In this chapter we learn that Psycholinguistic is s the study of the cognitive processes that support the acquisition and use of language. We also saw Levelt’s speaking model that aims at describing the process of language production from the development of communicative intentions to the articulation of the sounds.

Psycholinguistics



 •Corpus Linguistics 
In this chapter we learn what corpus linguistics means to explore actual patterns of language use and as a tool for developing materials for classroom language instruction. And that Corpus linguistics provides an extremely powerful tool for the analysis of natural language. And that there are many types of corpora as there are research topics in linguistics General corpora specialized corpora Learners corpus.