5. Discourse Aspects of Interlanguage

Tiyas Fauziah

2201411005

Rombel 4 / 103 – 104

5.   Discourse Aspects of Interlanguage

     The study of learner discourse in SLA has been informed by two rather different goals. On the one hand there have been attempts to discover how L2 learners acquire the ‘rules’ of discourse that inform native-speaker language use. On the other hand, a number of researchers have sought to show how interaction shapes interlanguage development.

4. Social Aspects of Interlanguage

Tiyas Fauziah

2201411005

Rombel 4 / 103 – 104

4. Social Aspects of Interlanguage

            SLA has acknowledged the importance of social factors. Three different approaches to incorporating a social angle on the study of L2 acquisition can be identified. The first views interlanguage as consisting of different ‘styles’ which learners call upon under different conditions of language use. The second concerns how social factors determine the input that learners use to construct their interlanguage. The third considers how the social identities that learners negotiate in their interactions with native speakers shape their opportunities to speak and to learn L2.