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Wiki (2007) stated that medium of instruction means the language
used by teacher to teach. It may or may not be the official language of
the territory (e.g. Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesia or English in
Indonesia). English has assumed its place as the language of
communication in the new linguistic global order. English is used in
science, business, technology, and other domains. Nowadays, English is
being applied in the curriculum as a medium of instruction in wide
variety countries, from pre-school to higher education. |
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No language or rules, in the sense of morphological difficulty, have
ever been acquired or located within the brain, rather, the transition
from the first to the second language involves cognitive processes of
reconceptualization through social interaction (Hill 2006:821).
Social interaction as a necessary condition for language
development. Second generation cognitive grammars, in contradiction,
readily acknowledge that they need a firm sociocultural basis Zuengler
& Miller 2006). Usage-based approaches to language also provide an
opportunity for cognitive linguists to engage with the
social-interaction nature of language (Croft & Cruse 2004 in Hill
2006: 821). Therefore, within the second-generation cognitive grammar
framework, exclusion of social interaction no longer holds as a
standard for incommensurability (Hill 2006: 821). |
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There are two outstanding models cognitive perspectives of SLA:
Attention-Processing Model, and Implicit and Explicit Models (Brown
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Theories of second language acquisition
SLA is a subset of general human learning, involves cognitive
variations, is closely related to one’s personality to one’s
personality type, is interwoven with second culture learning, and
involves interference, the creation of new linguistic systems, and the
learning of discourse and communicative functions of language (Douglass
Brown 2000). A theory of second language acquisition is a standard set
of constructs which can explain and describe the acquisition process. |
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