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viernes, 20 de septiembre de 2013



The acquisition-learning hypothesis:
An experience of this hypothesis would be when I learn new vocabulary by using movies, songs or stories in the second language. For example, I tend to memorize vocabulary watching movies in the second language because I learn a lot of idiomatic expressions and new words; then, when I learn all of those new words, I put them into practice, and in that way, I take my apprendiceship subconciously
  

  The monitor hypothesis: In this hypothesis, we, the students, put into practice  all the vocabulary we have learned in the second language. I have had many experiences in which I do remember words that I have learned, and then I begin to formulate how to use this word and in which context I can use it but most of the time, I remember those words which I learn in classes.

The input hypothesis: This hypothesis refers when the learners can understand a little bit of other speakers of the second language; In my case, I have talk to native speakers of the English language but there are some words that are incomprenssible for me but I can understand about what they are talking by context.

The natural order hypothesis:  This is the most common way to acquire a second language because I have had many experiences; An example can be, when I am taking my English grammar class, because in that subject I am learning step by step all the grammatical parts and how to use them in context. Also, I can say that other subject would be composition because I am being submitted to an strict process of rules.

The affective filter hypothesis:  In this case, It depends on the mood I have during an specific class; for example, I can find myself really stress when I do not know how to do in some parts of the english grammar and for that reason, sometimes I get frustrated, and It does not let me to pay attention or to get focus on the class because I am thinking how to understand first the other parts that I did not get. Another situation would be, when I am sleepless; so that, it is pretty difficult to pay attention.