1. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 22.03.2012, THURSDAY Undergraduate Course Asst.Prof.Dr.Azamat Akbarov

2. Professor Rod Ellis is a Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at University of Auckland, New Zealand. Since 1980 has authored more than 30 books and 100 articles on SLA. He received his Doctorate from the University of London. A special award, the Professor Rod Ellis Award for linguistic and second language acquisition articles is found in the Asian EFL Journal. Professor Ellis selects the winning research articles which will be presented at the International Asian EFL Journal Conference, held in Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan. Professor Ellis teaches Second Language Acquisition around the globe and presents at global conferences. He teaches TESOL in Korea as well as SLA in China, USA and New Zealand.

3. What are the goals of SLA? What are the goals of SLA? How learners acquire an L2? Asking learners how they did it. Limitation – can’t remember the actual learning processes they engaged in. What they do or what they think they do. Learner language – to be used in L2, in speech and writing. Samples provide evidence of target language, thus describe changes over time.