Transcript Social Aspects of Interlanguage

Social Aspects of
Interlanguage
Source : Second Language Acquisition - Rod
Ellis
Dias Wicaksono
Bahtiar Rifai
M. Jona Lumintu
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There are three approaches to
incorporate a social angle of L2
acquisition:
1. Interlanguage as consisting of
different styles
2. How social factors determine the
input that construct interlanguage
3. How the social identities learners
negotiating in their interactions
with native speakers
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Different styles of language use depending on the
condition of the use
Elaine Taron:
stylistic continuum
careful style
Howard Giles:
convergence
vernacular style
accommodation theory
divergence
Interlanguage as a stylistic
continuum
Elaine Tarone has proposed some
theories :
 Stylistic continuum
 Careful Style
 Vernacular style
 Stylistic
continuum
Learners develop capability for
using the L2 and this undelies all
regular language behaviour
 Careful
Style
evident when learners are
consciuosly attending to their
choice of linguistic forms, as
when they need to be correct
 Vernacular
style
Evident when learners are
making spontaneous choices of
linguistic forms as is likely in
free conversation
The Problems regarding
Tarone’s theory
1.
2.
Later, research has shown that
learners are not always most
accurate in their careful style and
least accurate in their vernacular
style
The role of social factors remains
unclear
Howard Gile’s
Accommodation Theory
Explain how a learners social group
influences the course of L2 acquisition
 The key idea is social accommodation
 Social factors influence interlanguage
development via the impact they have on
the attitudes that determine the kinds of
language learners engage in
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When people interact with each other
they either try to make their speech
similar to that of their adressee in order
to emphasize social cohesiveness (a
process of convergence) or to make it
different in order to emphasize their
social distinctiveness ( a process of
divergence )
The Acculturation model of L2
Determination of the input by social
factors
John Schumann:
model
acculturation
social distance
The Acculturation model of L2
This model is built around the metaphor
of ‘distance’
 This concerns the extent to which
individual learners become members of a
target language group and therefore
achieve contact with them
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3. social identities
Bonny Pierce:
social context and
acquisition
relationship between
L2
subject to
subject of

investment
Social Identity and Investment
in L2 Learning
The notions of ‘subject to’ and ‘subject of’
are central to Bonny Peirce view of the
realtionship between social context and
L2 acquisition ( struggle and investment )
 Language learners have complex social
identities that can only be understood in
terms of the power relation that shape
social structures
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 Pierce’s
social theory of L2
acquisition afford a different set of
metaphor
 Social sonditions determine the
extent of learners contact with the
L2 and their commitment to learn it
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