DELTA - Module 1 About Language Terminology

The term refers to the unconscious knowledge of grammar, vocabulary and phology that allows a speaker to use and understand a language.

The actual use of language in concrete situations. It is used to describe both the production, sometimes called parole, as well as the comprehension of a language.

Includes linguistic, sociolinguistic and cultural domains, explicit knowledge about a language.

is a form of a guided research into language. The aim of it is to discover the language's underlying systems, to deal with them from a pedagogical perspective.

is a broad term used to describe many forms of arrested progress in L2 acquisition.

studying examples and (either consciously or unconsciously) working out the rules.

The children learning their first language acquire grammatical structures in a "pre-determined", natural order, and that some are acquired earlier than others.

a learner's ability to use language to communicate successfully. It encompasses a language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use the utterances appropriately.

Is the type of a language or a linguistic system used by second-and foreign language learners who are in the process of learning a target language.

Also known as inductive approach, is a technique or an approach where a teacher provides examples of a language item and helps the learners to find out the rules themselves.