It was not really Language acquisition.
I am 3rd student doing my degree on BE.d Foundation phase. well, since this level has started I have learnt new terminology such as CAPS Document, lesson plan, impairments, genres, ICT (yes I know) 🙈 and the most interesting one is Language acquisition which entails lexicon (words used), syntactic (structure of sentence) phonology, encoding and decoding.
The more knowledge I have on this concept(you called it concept right?), there more I realize I wasn't taught English the way it was supposed to be taught. Do not get me wrong I love my home language and I think I passed well in school because the language of instruction was my home language ( even English was taught in IsiNdebele😟). As we all know everything has pro and cons, I am not comfortable speaking/ having conversation in English. I can try to encode (produce) and decode (comprehend) even though my lexicon, grammar, syntactic rules and phonology are not according . In my situation only the innate model applied, not so much of usage based model. I really think if I was given a chance to use and hear the language/speech more often, my English wold have been more efficient.
