1. Theories of First & Second Language Acquisition
Hypothesis-Testing After the two previous theories fail to prove the process of language acquisition. ... Moreover, Chomsky himself was reported to hypothesize that innate linguistic knowledge may not apply to second language learners in the same process as first language learners. ... The input hypothesis Input hypothesis, also considered the most important theory in second language acquisition, claims that exposure to a particular understandable data or input is the only source of acquisition of a learner of a second language. Language is acquired only when data or input can be processe...
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