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Assignment #3 Lorraine Espada ESL 631 PH01 Second Language Acquisition and Culture Dr. Daniel Mercado-Cruz August 16, 2020 1. The author claims that face-to-face interaction is not absolutely n... ecessary for second language acquisition. What do you think? Support or refute this claim based on your own experience. 2. communicative competence is defined as “what a speaker needs to know to communicate appropriately within a language community.” How is this different from pure linguistic competence? do you believe linguistic competence is sufficient for effective communication, or do you agree that communicative competence is necessary? Provide real-life examples to support your viewpoint, combined with theoretical explanations from the chapter. 3. Considering your own learning, or the learning of someone you know well, do you believe in scaffolding and the Zone of Proximal Development? Describe examples in your own life when you are the learner in need of scaffolding, and when you are the more advanced learner or teacher providing a learner with more opportunity for development. 4. Two types of communicative competence are academic competence and interpersonal competence. In your own studies of an L2, which one of these was stressed? Thinking of your goals for that L2, was it the right one for you? Give examples from your life to explain why. 5. Grabe’s four functions of reading in academic settings – reading to find information, reading for general understanding, reading to learn, and reading to critique and evaluate – are described on p. 166. Which of these functions do you use in your L2? Which ones are more and less challenging for you? More or less interesting? Why? 6. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are seen as essential activities for L2 use in an academic context, and often in interpersonal communication as well. Do you feel any of these skill areas are stronger in your own L2 use? Why do you think that is? 7. We have seen thus far that some L2 learners have a higher degree of success than others. Taking into consideration linguistic, psychological, and social factors, what do you see as most crucial to the success of L2 learning? Why? [Show More]

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