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

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. With a EC4: Consistency with accepted theories in other fields. Introduction : Describing and explaining L2 acquisition. Fitting the right population; would promote a fiscal and resource case for developing coordinated and/or integrated curriculum; would make use of a more flexible distributed learning platform and could be modularly constructed to meet service/organization specific need. THEORY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION based on R.Ellis book. The model is based on two distinctions—one of which refers to the process of language use and the product. 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. The framework provided in this article for viewing students' science writing offers teachers the opportunity to assess and support scientific language acquisition. 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 role of theory in SLA research is like what Hakuta (1981: 1) stated “the game of language acquisition research can be described as the search for an appropriate level of description for the . Though this has resulted in fairly robust training and assessment mechanisms for language second language acquisition (SLA) continues to be priority of research and instructional development. (2003) Handbook of second language acquisition. Science is constructed by particular routines of language, and students access scientific ideas through language; after all, people in academic settings routinely use theoretical language to mediate scientific concepts.