The natural order hypothesis states that all learners acquire the grammatical structures of a language in roughly the same order. This applies to both first and second language acquisition. This order is not dependent on the ease with which a particular language feature can be taught; in English, some features, such as third-person "-s" ("he runs") are easy to teach in a classroom setting, but are not typically fully acquired until the later stages of language acquisition. The hypothesis was based on morpheme studies by Heidi Dulay and Marina Burt, which found that certain morphemes were predictably learned before others during the course of second language acquisition. The hypothesis was picked up by Stephen Krashen who incorporated it in his very well known input model of second language learning. Furthermore, according to the natural order hypothesis, the order of acquisition remains the same regardless of the teacher's explicit instruction; in other words,
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Please see this funtastic cartoon on identity. Please don't allow women discrimination....
ReplyDeleteI have rather mixed feelings on this and we British look at this issue in a different wauy to the French. On the one hand people should be free to where what they like. Some muslim women are no doubt happy to wear a full body and face covering (except eyes), but I also think that women are treated as second class by a number of religions, including islam. The Church of England and the Catholic Church treat women differently to men, though in more subtle ways. The main thing is that no woman should feel forced to wear a dress code. If they are, then Sarkozy is right. I wonder how his message will be received in some quarters.
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