Reading Guide 2 Submit before class

Reading Guide 2
Submit before class

Ch 2: Second Language Learning in Lightbown & Spada (2013)
Please read from pp. 35-49, 60-67
Name: Khudayqulova Zarifa_ Date 25.02.2021.
Instructions: Read the questions in the Reading Guide before you read the assigned chapter. The questions will help you focus on some key ideas in the chapter. Please write out your answers under each question. Submit it BEFORE class. Happy reading!
Before you read:
1. Please read and complete the chart below.
A second language learner is different in many ways from a young child acquiring a first language or an older child learning a second language. This is true in terms of both the learners' characteristics and the environments in which the language acquisition typically occurs. Think about how the characteristics and learning conditions of the following learners may differ.

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  a young child learning a first language
  
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  a child learning a second language in day care or on the playground
  
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  an adolescent studying a foreign language in their own country
  
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  an adult immigrant with limited or disrupted education working in a second language environment and having no opportunity to go to language classes.
  

Using the chart below, give your opinion about the presence or absence of learner characteristics and learning conditions for the four different learners mentioned above. Use the following notation:

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  + = usually present
  
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  - = usually absent
  
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  ? = sometimes present, sometimes absent, or you’re not sure
  

The first one has been done for you:

	L1	L2
	Young child (at home)	Young child (playground)	Adolescent (classroom)	Adult (on the job)