1. TAUGHT LEARNED / ACQUIRED vs

2. How did we learn our first language? Copied it speaking it hearing it all the time hearing it repitition DOING IT being shown it Watching it listening to it songs, television, books, practicing writing

3. Environment is focused on: Kinesthetic Communicative Positive Immersion **simulating How we actually ACQUIRED a language

4. THE COMPREHENSION HYPOTHESIS: The centerpiece of the theory We acquire a language when we understand messages. TWO AMAZING FACTS about language acquisition: Effortless: no energy, no work Involuntary: given comprehensible input you must acquire, you have no choice.

5. Making meaning S -> E -> M S -> M

6. Error Errors = Progress

7. Output hypothesis Merrill Swain What is The Output Hypothesis? The output hypothesis claims that the act of producing language (speaking or writing) constitutes……part of the process of second language learning.

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10. At beginning levels Making the environment safe and fun!!! Allowing students to have the forum to make mistakes Learning from their mistakes Leading topics of discussion

11. Novice The Parrot

12. Novice Speech limited to memorized material - Lists -Short phrases -Some memorized sentences

13. Intermediate The Survivor

14. Intermediate Can create with the language Can ask and answer simple questions on familiar topics Can handle a simple situation or transaction Complete sentences (Intermediate Mid – complex sentences)

15. Advanced The Storyteller

16. Advanced Can narrate and describe in past, present and future time/aspect Can handle a complicated situation or transaction Paragraph length discourse

17. Superior The Thinker

18. Superior Can support opinion, hypothesize, discuss abstract topics Can handle a linguistically unfamiliar situation Highly educated speaker

19. Spanish I-2– NM Spanish 3-4 – NH Spanish 5-6 – IL Spanish 9-10 – IM

20. Success is dependent on 2 factors: FULL PARTICIPATION SPANISH IMMERSION

21. ACQUISITION SpanishParticipation Teaching (correcting/helping)

22. Responsibility of learner BE accountable to the whole class Be positive and helpful Participate fully Be prepared every day Stay in Spanish Be interested and passionate