Ggroup 8

1. Ahmad mahfudillah syam

2. Nurhidayati

                                                      Learning and Teaching

   1. Age and Acquisition

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and    comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

2. L anguage

Language There are some explanation about language, Pinker explains on is book The English Instinct (1994) that language is complex, specialized skill, which develops in the child spontaneously, without conscious effort or formal instruction. Then we can decide about language: 1. Language is systematic. 2. Language is a set arbitrary symbols. 3. Those symbols are primary vocal, but may also by visual. 4. The symbols have conventionalized meanings to which they refer. 5. Language is used or communication. 6. Language operate in a speech community or culture. 7. Language is essentially human, although possibly not limited to human. 8. Language is acquired by all people in much the same way. Learning Learning a second language is long and complex process because it is a new language, a new culture, a new way of thinking, feeling and acting in our life. So, to make it success, we must have total commitment, total involvement and total physical instruction, intellectual, and emotional response to this second language.

3. Learning and Teaching

Activities and methods used to move the learner towards achievement of the learning outcome