ACQUISITION BARRIERS

      

  Learning a second language isn’t easy.There is a lot that can get in the way.It isn’t as automatic or sure as we’d suppose. Depending on the person, there can be some high barriers to learning another language.

Barriers to Language Acquisition and Learning

Social :  peer group, socio-economic status, L1 education and literacy, parental/family support, access and support ; Psycho / Emotional : affective factors (anxiety, social bias, self belief, motivation (low intrinsic and extrinsic forces), attitude towards language and learning, social disposition / character ; Biological : psycho motor skills, cognitive functioning, L1 development / childhood developmental factors, physical impairments (deaf, blind etc…) , psychological fitness, age and health ; Pedagogical : type and method of instruction,  improper materials and curriculum,  little access to input (native speakers / audio material), school and classroom culture, lack of learning skills, strategies, teacher/student relationship, planning and use of time ; Cultural : language transfer and interference (L1-L2 closeness), cultural values regarding risk taking, openess, government policy and investmen, dislocation, movement, war.

    These are the obvious reasons for the problems experienced in second language acquisition, and most of them are related that people attempt to learn another language during their teenage or adult years, in a few hours each week of school time, and they have a lot of other things to take care of, instead a child learns via the constant interaction that he or she experiences, and has not many things else to do. Besides the adult or teenage people have an already known language available for most of their daily communicative requirements.

       Teenagers are typically much more self conscious than young children. If there is a strong element of unwillingness or embarrassment in attempting to produce the different sounds of other languages, then it may override whatever physical and cognitive abilities there are. If this self-consciousness is combined with a lack of empathy with the foreign culture, then the subtle effects of not wanting to sound like a Russian or an American may strongly inhibit the acquisition process.

This is my assignment report of Second Language Acquisition of VOCABULARY FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Click here to download , hopefully it can help you in uderstanding deeply in studying Acquisition Barriers for children  ^_^