1. In SLA, we have discovered that the ________ domain of human behavior is of key importance in the acquisition of both a first and a second language.
2. Types of learning vary according to the __________ and the subject matter to be learned.
3. __________ learning includes the notion that language and cognition are inextricably interrelated.
4. A ________ is defined as a particular method of approaching a problem or task, a mode of operation for achieving a particular end, a plan designed for controlling and manipulating certain information.
5. A ___________ strategy is a method of perceiving and storing particular items for later recall.
6. A ___________ strategy is a method of achieving communication, of encoding or expressing meaning in a language.
7. ____________ is a general term describing the carry-over of previous performance or knowledge to subsequent learning.
8. The learning concepts in early childhood in a process of _____________.
9. ___________ is the process of reducing events to a common denomination.
10. Simplification is synonymous with ______________.
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Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
Language acquisition involves structures, rules and representation. The capacity to use language successfully requires one to acquire a range of tools including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary. Language can be vocalized as in speech, or manual as in sign.[1] Human language capacity is represented in the brain. Even though human language capacity is finite, one can say and understand an infinite number of sentences, which is based on a syntactic principle called recursion. Evidence suggests that every individual has three recursive mechanisms that allow sentences to go indeterminately. These three mechanisms are: relativization, complementation and coordination.[2]
There are two main guiding principles in first-language acquisition: speech perception always precedes speech production, and the gradually evolving system by which a child learns a language is built up one step at a time, beginning with the distinction between individual phonemes.[3]
Linguists who are interested in child language acquisition have for many years questioned how language is acquired. Lidz et al. state "The question of how these structures are acquired, then, is more properly understood as the question of how a learner takes the surface forms in the input and converts them into abstract linguistic rules and representations."[4]
Language acquisition usually refers to first-language acquisition, which studies infants' acquisition of their native language, whether that be spoken language or signed language,[1] though it can also refer to bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA), which refers to an infant's simultaneous acquisition of two native languages.[5] This is distinguished from second-language acquisition, which deals with the acquisition (in both children and adults) of additional languages. In addition to speech, reading and writing a language with an entirely different script compounds the complexities of true foreign language literacy. Language acquisition is one of the quintessential human traits.[6][7]