wjdenny.com

Search

SearchSearch
    • Teaching
    • Student-to-student Interaction in Second Language Classrooms
    • Socioacademic Relationships
    • Second Language Acquisition
    • Maps of content
    • Linguistic DEI in Higher Education
    • Language Anxiety
    • Curriculum Vitae
Home

❯

Second Language Acquisition

Second Language Acquisition

Sep 29, 20251 min read

  • ✽
  • Critical Language Awareness explores the intersections of language and power
  • Circumstantial bilingualism is the idea that a person may be proficient in English for specific situations, but less capable in others
  • All of a person’s linguistic ability is combined into a single linguistic repertoire
  • Anxiety is a major obstacle to learning a foreign language

Grammar

  • Feedback on content was found to be more effective than feedback on grammar and sentence structure
  • Correcting non-treatable errors are less effective in helping students avoid errors in the future

Pragmatics

  • Discussion skills like articulating, defending, and providing evidence for an idea are what helps us learn
  • Civil attention is the appearance of paying attention and participating in discussion while the person is not actually listening

Methods

  • Different modes of language acquisition facilitate skill development in different ways.

Graph View

  • Grammar
  • Pragmatics
  • Methods

Backlinks

  • Acquiring language through communication is superior to isolated drills
  • Circumstantial bilingualism is the idea that a person may be proficient in English for specific situations, but less capable in others
  • Labor-based grading practices link assessment with pedagogy making them one in the same
  • Maps of content
  • More parts of the brain are activated when using information in productive language and sensemaking.
  • Putting value on students' linguistic expertise in their own language can be useful in teaching them how to do similar things in English
  • Students who were not raised in white habitus households struggle to adopt habits of white language in college
  • The literacy ecology framework supposes that literacy is acquired when people use language to handle problems in their daily lives
  • There is a writing activity that asks students to explain and reflect on a meaningful word or phrase in their first language
  • There is some research to support that groups of learners can acquire language in different sequences
  • There should be different approaches to placing ESOL students because different groups of students will acquire language differently; it's not one-size-fits-all language support
  • Whether a student can articulate a grammar rule is independent of whether they can identify an error

Created with Quartz v4.2.3 © 2025

  • CV
  • GitHub
  • Mastodon