L2 Errors

Actual second language acquisition does not necessarily occur in a linear fashion ... See chapter 6 for information on teaching foundational reading skills ... This brings us to an essential question: how can we improve the teaching of reading informative texts so that adult students learning in L2 gain better ... Rubin and Thompson (1982) offered guidance to foreign language students on how to make themselves better learners. Extensive study of this notion of learning ... ELP Standards 1 and 3s focus on supporting ELLs' engagement with informational texts. 7. Scaffolding is essential to facilitate ELLs' acquisition of language ... Second language acquisition, or sequential language acquisition, is learning a second language after a first language is already established. information; they also must analyze and evaluate what they read while negotiating a second language. This research process requires students to read complex ... This threatens the notion that second language learners do not process sentences as deeply as natives, relying on lexical and contexual information instead. Aside from environmental factors, all of the impediments to information access listed above deal with language processing. In studies in cognitive psychology, ... Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain ... The 2011 report, A Decade of Foreign Language Standards: Im- pact, Influence ... This document discusses second language learning from an information processing perspective. It proposes that humans have limited cognitive capacities and ...