Zehua Zhang
Discuss the difference between learning and acquisition
discussed in the reading. Has it been true to your experiences? explain
Talking about the difference between learning and
acquisition, before reading this passage, I was absolutely no idea, even can’t
separate the differences between the two concepts. I am a student from China
and had never been studied abroad. So without any compares, I can’t see more
kinds of views on teaching. But this passage gives good contrasts on several
ways of helping students on learning and acquisition. And when I linked them
with my own experience, I found that it was so similar and noteworthy. It gives
two questions: Is written language acquired naturally or learned consciously
and Can people acquire a second language. On discussing each of the question,
three leaning parts were introduced.
Firstly, the two ways of learning reading are discussed. One
is called recognition view which mainly means reading must be learned. The
other one is socio-psychological view that illustrates reading could be innate
people can acquire the ability by learning. The main difference between the two
ways is how to construct the meaning of the articles. The recognition view concentrate
more on identifying words and make printed words into oral language while the socio-psychological
view holds that learning reading is like oral things. Obviously the second way
of learning reading is more helpful on acquisition. I had been learning English
since I went to primary school, but until I decided to study in the U.S, all of
my teachers pay more attention on how could I just ‘read’ the articles, every
time I learn a new passage, teachers would ask me to read aloud for once or
twice. After that, I found myself could understand the meaning of the article.
But when I have tests or just reading fictions, I don’t have enough time or
suitable situations to read aloud, so the speed of reading comes down and I
would get puzzled with the acquisition of the reading.
Secondly, it introduces two ways of teaching writing.
Similar to the reading, there are also two ways,learning view (traditional way)
and acquisition view (process way). Within the traditional way, students learn
how to produce good pieces and was taught to begin with parts of the essay and then
build up to write the whole text. Teachers use this way are more interested in
correcting spelling mistakes and conventionality. However, the process way is
totally different on both the goal of leaning and teachers’ concentration. In
this way, students have to produce both good writing and knowledge of writing
process. Teachers produce background knowledge and create real writing
circumstances to help students find their ways of constructing meaning,
understanding and expressing ideas. Frankly, my idea about these two views is
clear: the traditional way is more like real teaching which means how much do
the teachers tell students, students could learn. It would be helpful to form
correct writing habits and students would be able to write straight and narrow
essays, but can’t be creative and innovative as the students who were taught in
the second way. The process way is more like ‘teaching students to get the
ability of writing things instead of teaching them how to write things.’
Although they will make mistakes, but the core thing, acquisition of writing is
familiar to them.
The third example is about views on learning a second
language. The theory of Krashan was given directly that we have to use what we
learned recently in different circumstances in case of forgetting them. We
learn from getting information and transfer or link them to what we have known
in order to understand them. We have to do both input and output in order to acquire
on natural setting by receive relevant comprehensible input. The other theories
also illustrate some other negative effects on acquisition, such as boredom, anxiety,
time limit,social distance and fossilization.
These are the main meaning of acquisition that I understand.
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