History of Theory and Analysis in Applied Linguistics.pptVIP

History of Theory and Analysis in Applied Linguistics? From CA to CA(Contrastive Analysis to Conversation Analysis) Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis(CAH) based on a behavioristic theory of language  first application of linguistic theory to the teaching of languages where two languages are similar, positive transfer will occur  where they are different, negative transfer, or interference, will result the audio-lingual method is based on the contrastive analysis hypothesis Two Versions of the CAH The strong one (a priori) claimed that predictions of trouble spots could be made based upon a comparison of two languages. This starts with a crosslinguistic analysis and then attempts to predict trouble spots. The weak one (a posteriori) claimed that cross-linguistic comparison could help to explain learner errors. This starts with learner errors and attempts to account for them with cross-grammatical comparisons. CAH Refuted Since CA was tied so closely to behaviorism, Chomskys refutation of the behaviorist view of language learning/acquisition was also in effect a refutation of the CAH Evidence from research also failed to support the CAH Error Analysis First of mentalist-based approaches Language acquisition as rule formation (early 60s). likens the process of L2 acquisition to that of L1 in that learners/acquirers are said to develop rules of grammar Support for this is found in that L2 learners commit developmental errors similar to those of children learning L1. Such errors cannot be traced to L1 interference First use of Interlanguage Error Analysis Procedure IL data is collected (written or oral) Errors are identified (to do this you have to know what the correct contexts are) Error classification Quantify errors - how many errors of agreement, verb tense, and so on Analyze errors (interlingual or intralingual) Assumptions about IL IL is, at any given time, a system unto itself, rule governed, and different from both L1 and L2 ? D