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LECTURE FOUR

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION,

LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING

By Alec

So far we know little about the linguistic competence of human beings. How does a child learn its own language? We come to believe that the infant has an instinct for language—not for any particular language or grammatical category so much as an inborn set of general-purpose capacities used in language but also available for other skilled activities.

1.     Language acquisition

Acquiring a language calls for three things: