Questions and Answers of Chapter 5 'Discourse Aspect of Interlanguage'

CHAPTER 5

Discourse Aspects of Interlanguage 
1.     What  ways in which discourse might contribute to L2 acquisition?

There are many ways in which discourse might contribute to L2 acquisition,

a.       Through the modified input that comes in foreigner talk.

b.      Through the input learners obtain from negotiation of meaning.

c.       Through scaffolding

d.      Through comprehensible output.

2.   What is the argumentation from Krashen and why does he argue those argumentation?

He argues that speaking is the result of acquisition not its cause. He claims that the only way learners can learn from their output is by treating it as auto-input.

3.    What is ‘comprehensible input” ?

Comprehensible input is part of the total input that learner understand and which is hypothesized to be necessary for acquisition to take place.

4.   What is the explanation of ‘language talk’?

Language talk is the language that native speaker use when addressing non-native speaker.

5.  What are the various types of modification of baseline talk?

a.       Grammatical foreigner talk is delivered at a slower pace.

b.      The input is simplified.

c.       Grammatical foreigner talk is sometimes regularized.

d.      Foreigner talk sometimes consist of elaborate language use.