linguistics assignment for 1-4, 2009

L2 learning? What are your suggestions to language learners? 6. How do personality traits affect our L2 learning? What are your suggestions to language learners?

7. What are learning strategies? Which one do you think is the most important for students and why? What are your suggestions to language learners?

8. It is said that a foreign language is learnt, not taught. What do you think? Please illustrate your points using some knowledge you learned from this course.

9. Introduce a linguist’s /language educator’s major ideas/contributions and make some comment on them.

10. Generally speaking, there are three prevalent approaches on first language acquisition, namely, the behaviorist approach, the innateness

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approach and the interationist approach. Which one is more plausible to you and why?

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