Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Homework 1


There are many ways of learning and acquiring for anything you do such as studying a second language, talking to your friends or playing sport. According to this reading, learning a language is by one studying with his or her own action like increasing vocabulary levels in advance of reading a passage and identifying words to understand the meaning of a passage by combining individual words or pronouncing them. On the other hand, based on the reading, acquisition is more like practicing and learning from mistakes. Reading a text to find new words and look up for meaning or assuming what they mean from the sentences. Thus, acquisition process is closer to acquiring something naturally rather than learning things by study attempts.

For example, things I learned for my second language is only my vocabularies and some knowledge of writing. I always studied many vocabularies to get a better score in my English test than the previous ones, also gained some knowledge of writing from a textbook to pass examinations for entering my university. On the contrary, I acquired to speak a little bit of English just by talking with friends, using incorrect words in conversations and learned from those errors. Acquisition process is way more efficient and quick in stead of learning, however, it depends on your age whether to acquire or learn new things because when you are young it is easier to acquire a new language. In my opinion, learning and acquisition of something is all about the timing, but it is best if you use both in right way and become good at it.

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