Homework

Aria Fazelimanesh

09/07/2013

There are many differences between learning and acquisition. The most basic difference is that learning comes from wanting to be thought by someone or from different sources and acquisition is gained naturally. In learning you choose the limit of learning new things by yourself and someday you might forget about it if you don’t repeat it very often, which means learning come from a lot of practices. But in acquisition you learn new things by overhearing and using them naturally in your everyday life.

 For example a lot of international students study English as their second language in their home country and they are able to score very high on TOEFL to get into American universities but their communication skills doesn't show their English level because they haven’t heard the correct pronunciations of the words that often.  I have had the same experience for the past 2 years. Before I come to the United States I studied English as my second language for a few years. But when I got here I found my English skills much weaker than I thought until I started listening to the native speakers talk and learning the correct pronunciation.

Overall I think that learning comes from reading and practicing over and over but acquisition comes from overhearing hearing and using the in your daily speeches.