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3 Read the interview and answer the comprehension questions:

  1. What are the reasons that make people learn another language?

  2. What is the role of “cognitive capacities” in the polylingual personality formation?

  3. What meaning does ‘developing a sense of diversity in unity’ have?

  4. What is ‘cultural doxa’?

  5. Why are ‘universals and commonalities’ in languages important in language learning?

  6. How is neuroscience related to language learning?

  7. What does the concept of ‘brain plasticity’ bring to language learning?

  8. How do positive emotions influence the process of language learning?

CONCEPT STUDY

1 Use the words in boxes A and B and make up collocations.

2 Use the collocations in your speech.

COMMUNICATION

1 Role play the interview with Bruno della Chiesa.

2 Role play the following situations.

  1. You work as a Foreign Language teacher at school, your collegue has asked you for advice. Discuss the ways of making the process of learning enjoyable.

  2. You are an undergraduate. You think that it is possible to study languages in the absence of the language environment. Your groupmate would like to go abroad for studies as he/she thinks that one should live in the target-language socio-cultural environment to achieve the language mastery. Talk to each other.

3 Summarize the interview.

I NFORMATION-ACCUMULATION: WATCHING A VIDEO

1 Revise what you know about the comprehensible input, then generate your ideas on what comprehensive learning is.

2 Comment on the quotation on the quotation.

3 Watch the part of Stephen Krashen’s lecture ‘Fundamentals of Language Acquisition and Bilingual Education’ at www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8JZmXC85k and make notes about two samples of the lessons [66].

4 Express your opinion on the following questions.

  1. What is the comprehensible input?

  2. What is the best way to learn the language?

  3. What is the most important: what is said or how it is said?

  4. Does speaking mean the same as communication?

COMMUNICATION

1 Conduct a survey.

What difficulties do learners from the Republic of Kazakhstan have in learning a foreign language? Classify these difficulties and prepare a report outlining the main results.

2 Discuss the following questions.

  1. Could you give any examples of the language structures to provide the evidence for the statement that different languages say things in different ways?

  2. What do you know about second language acquisition (SLA) theories and perspectives (e.g. cognitive, social, and psychological)?

AN ANALYTICAL ESSAY 1 Read the article ‘Theories and Research of Second Language Acquisition’ by Susan Malone and be ready to discuss the author’s point of view.

[67] Malone S. Theories and Research of Second Language Acquisition. Bangkok, 2012.

2 Read the text again and create a comparative chart of the text, outlining the following:

  1. A timeline of the second language acquisition (SLA) theories, methods, hypothesis.

  2. Representative second language theories (Behaviorism, Language Acquisition Device (LAD), Information Processing, Social Interaction and Sociocultural Theories).

  3. Representative second language methods.

3 Write an analytical essay (300-350 words), focusing on the following:

  1. The existing ideas of second language acquisition.

  2. The evaluation of some ideas provided in the text.

  3. Your opinion on the topic under consideration.

4 Use the ‘Critical Reading and Writing Assignment Grid’ to create your response. Consult the ‘Writing Bank’ section.