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Sociocultural Perspective to Second Language Acquisition

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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Cognitive Models of Second Language Acquisition
There are two outstanding models cognitive perspectives of SLA: Attention-Processing Model, and Implicit and Explicit Models (Brown 2002).
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Second Language Acquisition Review Literature

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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Online Teaching: Instructional Design Theories Part II
 
Online Teaching: Instructional Design Theories Part II
C. M. Reigeluth

HISTORY OF ID THEORIES
Like most fields, ID theory began by investigating general instructional variables, such as expository vs. discovery, lecture vs. discussion, and media-based vs. traditional methods. It was soon realized that two discovery methods could differ more from each other than do a discovery and an expository method. The field then gradually entered an analysis phase in its development (which began to gain visibility in the late 1950s with B F Skinner's work). The research objective was to break a method down into elementary components and discover which ones made a difference. Instructional researchers then proceeded to build a considerable knowledge base of validated prescriptions, primarily for the simpler types of learning, for which the behaviorist paradigm was fairly adequate.
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