Pendant les vacances de février nous avons l'habitude d'aller à Puyravault, mais cette année ça va changer. Elspeth doit assister à un congrès à Washington DC, alors on va passer une semaine ensemble à Washington et New York. Je n'ai pas eu le temps d'y penser sérieusement, mais je ne suis jamais allé aux Etats-Unis et tout le monde me dit que New York est fabuleux et qu'il y a des choses très bien à Washington aussi. Une chose m'inquiète: je ne connais pas très bien la langue. Mais il faut absolument que je résiste à la tentation de sortir mon accent américain. Il vaudrait mieux que je garde mon accent british. Apparemment on trouve ça intellectuel et très sexy là-bas. On verra.
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,
ya all have a real cool time there now!
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