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Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition Michael Tomasello
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Second Language Acquisition Theories. With a EC4: Consistency with accepted theories in other fields. New York: Basil It risks teaching more skills, vocabulary, genres, etc., than students can use, but also less, through not teaching language abilities they do or will need. Iii) The Natural Order Hypothesis. TPR.com would have you believe that you can use TPR as the be-all and end-all for language teaching, right up into very advanced levels. It is worth noting that not just traditional linguistically based syllabi, but also most thematic, topic-based, and content-based approaches sit uneasily with the same research findings. The learner's strength and needs are the center of instruction. The constructivist paradigm is a view of instruction which focuses on using what the learner already knows and adding new understandings to construct meaning. Another UG based theory, the Creative Construction theory, was suggested by Dulay and Burt (1974). (2003) Handbook of second language acquisition. The use of the Monitor is affected by the amount of time that the second language learner has at his/her disposal to think about the utterance he/she is about to produce, the focus on form, and his/her knowledge of second language rules (Krashen, 1981:3-4).