Beyin: Gizemli Yolculuk

Hi Guys,

This week we studied the cognitive models to SLA, why don't you go and enlarge your knowledge about how brain works. Visit Koç Museum, and see the current exhibition. "Beyin: Gizemli Yolculuk", then write your review.

http://www.rmk-museum.org.tr/english/index.html

Good Luck,

Tuncer Can

Universal Grammar

Hello Everybody,

1) Read Unit 7 (Universal Grammar) from your book and visit the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_and_parameters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã_language
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,414291,00.html

2) Then answer the following questions:
1. If you already know a second language and start learning a third, what is the initial state?
2. What is the Criticism to UG? Answer this question by referring to Piraha People in particular.

Tuncer Can

SLA Quiz

Hi,

Go to this website and check yourselves, there are some quizzes about second language acquisition. After doing them write a comment on them

http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb044/FirstLangAcq.htm

Good Luck,

Tuncer Can

Project LENA

Hello Everybody,

See and read about the following project on "Enhanced Language Development" on http://www.lenababy.com/ and write its possible implications for foreign language learning.

Good Luck,

Tuncer Can

How would you frame the SLA research?

Hi All,

This week you have 2 questions to answer.

1. How would you frame the SLA research?
2. Make a hypothesis on the following data from your book(p.18). After examining the following data write your own hypothesis about the acquisition of "plural in English". Remember the 4 hypotheses we studied on the acquisition of "continuous" in English.

1) I bought a couple of towel.
2) There is many kind of way you make baklava.
3) Just a few month he will finish from his studies.
4) There is a lot of mosquito.
5) How many hour?

Good luck,

Tuncer Can