It was not really Language acquisition.
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.
True, expressing ourselves in English should be more encouraged. Teachers are primarily to be held responsible for this problem, we should do more to prepare children for the real world, which (I'm afraid) demands people to be English proficient.
ReplyDeletewhat you are trying to say is that your acquisition of language was suppressed. you claim that you did not receive instructions sufficiently from language users/ accomplished speakers but only your innate ability applied. but are you aware that monolinguals access words more often than bilinguals in a target language?
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The correct method of teaching language was not implemented, and the same people (teacher) who were supposed to be more matured in using the second language that I was supposed to be taught, unfortunate they were not as developed at they should be. wrong pronunciation, lack of lexicon and incorrect grammar.
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