GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the contrastive analysis hypothesis formulated by Lado (1957), difficulties in acquiring a new (second) language are derived from the differences between the new language and the native (first) language of a language user.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contrastive analysis hypothesis is an area of comparative linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more languages to determine the differences or similarities between them, either for theoretical purposes or purposes external to the analysis itself.
Detailed explanation-3: -Second language acquisition Therefore, the difficulty in mastering certain structures in a second language (L2) depended on the difference between the learners’ mother language (L1) and the language they were trying to learn.
Detailed explanation-4: -Contrastive descriptions can occur at every level of linguistic structure: speech sounds (phonology), written symbols (graphology), word-formation (morphology), word meaning (lexicology), collocation (phraseology), sentence structure (syntax) and complete discourse (textology).