Pdf diane larsen freeman michael h long an introduction to. Larsen freemantechniquesandprinciplesinlanguageteaching. An introduction to second language acquisition escholarship. Second language competence versus second language performance. It is not only a summary of the second language acquisition sla re. In second language acquisition, the knowledge of the native language. Michael h long an introduction to second language acquisition research longman 1991.
Larsenfreeman, 1991, what constituted mainstream sla, or the core of the field, may. Transfer is a traditional term from psychology of learning which means imposition of previously learned patterns onto a new learning situation. Larsenfreeman and long 1991 state that at least forty theories of sla have been proposed p. Language emergence um personal world wide web server. Olsen and samuels 1973 found that american englishspeaking adolescents and adults performed significantly better than children after ten 1525 minute german pronunciation sessions.
This diane larsenfreeman and michael long amply provide. An introduction to second language acquisition research. I would add that they draw my attention because they view language not only as syntactic structure but also as discourse. It became clear that learning a language is not only a linguistic process.