1. Social Aspects of Interlanguage
Source : Second Language Acquisition - Rod Ellis
Dias Wicaksono ( )
Bahtiar Rifai ( )
M. Jona Lumintu ( )

2. There are three approaches to incorporate a social angle of L2 acquisition:
Interlanguage as consisting of different styles
How social factors determine the input that construct interlanguage
How the social identities learners negotiating in their interactions with native speakers

3. Different styles of language use depending on the condition of the use Elaine Taron: stylistic continuum careful style vernacular style Howard Giles: accommodation theory convergence divergence

4. Interlanguage as a stylistic continuum
Elaine Tarone has proposed some theories :
Stylistic continuum
Careful Style
Vernacular style

5. Stylistic continuum
Learners develop capability for using the L2 and this undelies all regular language behaviour

6. Careful Style
evident when learners are consciuosly attending to their choice of linguistic forms, as when they need to be correct

7. Vernacular style
Evident when learners are making spontaneous choices of linguistic forms as is likely in free conversation

8. The Problems regarding Tarone’s theory
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

9. 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

10. 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 )

11. The Acculturation model of L2
Determination of the input by social factors
John Schumann: acculturation model
social distance

12. 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

13. 3. social identities
Bonny Pierce: relationship between social context and L2 acquisition
subject to subject of
 investment

14. 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

15. 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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