Acquisition of a Second/Foreign Language by Viewing a Television Program

Géry d’Ydewalle · Ubolwanna Pavakanun

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EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language Development and Disorders Subtitles and Audiovisual Media

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Following the idea of language universals (Chomsky, 1964), proposals have been made that the phrase structure rules of transformational grammar might be universal to all languages. The grammar of a particular language, then, is to be supplemented by a universal grammar that accommodates the creative aspect of the particular language use. The universal grammar expresses the deep-seated regularities. The tacit knowledge of the universals is assumed to be innate; accordingly, children and adults use, to the same extent, the universal innate schema of language in acquiring any particular languages. According to this reasoning, children’s language acquisition and acquiring a new foreign language by adults should not make any difference. However, this seems to be a quite controversial issue.

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