M4: Language Acquisition Quickwrite

The previous material was all about language and language in general.  Now we are going to delve deeper into language acquisition.

Directions: Spend 3 minutes writing whatever comes to mind related to the following questions.  You don’t have to “answer” each question.  Just explore these topics by writing stream of consciousness style whatever comes to your mind related to these topics.

  • Have you been around children acquiring their first language? What was it like?
  • Have you learned/tried to learn another language? What was it like?  Describe your actions, feelings, etc.
  • How do you think people learn languages?

 

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