Issues and Trends On Language Acquisition: By: Jacqueline F. Bucao/2 Sem2015

ISSUES and TRENDS ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
By: JACQUELINE F. BUCAO/2nd sem2015

In this current situation, in terms of language acquisition and leaning, has changed as it goes with
the cultural evolution or revolution. The history gives practical empirical observations perceived and as
shown by great psychologists like Piaget, Brunner etc. to make clear picture of how language is acquired
and learned by children and adult as well.
Language is an indispensable aspect of a culture because it serves as a remarkable tool to build
sense of unity despite the grand differences. Language has its own system though which may vary in
how people understand and perform in terms of duration learning and teaching process. With this it
would be very beneficial to recognize the issues and to recognize few of the trends in Language
acquisition.
At first, like any other learning field, it is understood that every child is graded according to
his/her competence and performance. Competence is known to be the system of ideas which are
intangible like the grammar, vocabulary, syntax. However, students normally get the ideas most often
yet seem to get stuck when performance tasks are being employed. This is the common issue in
acquiring language because the people who are uttering words aside that they lack understanding the
meaning they also lack cultural understanding which should be properly directed.
The world has been changed from monologue to dialogue learning and now to the multi-faceted
means of learning. The presence of the technology and the invasion of new learning contents has
relatively expanded the traditional learning and teaching patterns. The Content and Language Integrated
Learning (CLIL) immerged to keep the integration of different learning subjects such as history,
geography, etc through the use of language. In one way or another it supports the idea of Multi-
intelligences of the 21st century students. This trends promotes the appropriate interpersonal skills to be
used and to secure cultural understanding and sensitivity, therefore, making the student gain civic
literacy, global awareness to work independently, to adopt changes, and work in diverse groups to lead
and to show accountability to task.
Fundamentals of acquiring language showed much connectivity from one point to the next which
some of them made opposing point of view in which lead to the idea of how formal and functional the
acquisition may be, how internal explanation may differ from the external explanation, how acquisition
of language make impact to the acquisition of communication skills and the importance of specific
faculty of language and general cognitive capacity. The world is bounded with vast change which lead
to a number of cultural revolution, the spreading of multiculturalism, interculturalism and globalization,
communication and interaction of people with different cultural background become an important issue.
In CLIL, acquisition of language is basically relevant to the contemporary era wherein learners are
focused on web. Learners should be directed to the content of the topic, the communication in terms of
what type of language use (science language, mathematical language, history etc), the cognitive skills
required in learning the topic be it classifying, cause and effect etc. and most importantly the cultural
focus (from local understanding to foreign context).
Then comes the language and gender. The gender differences in conversational interaction has
been pointed out in many debates nowadays. The social media has been a venue for all the controversies
on language preferences. The idea of sexism which had sprouted in 18th century in the struggle of
women to fight for their rights and privileges as human. Which then later extends so far now that
brought to the idea on gender sensitivity and awareness in the pursuit to achieve equality in all forms.
Take this for example the Gay Lingo, some people are uttering these type of inverted words yet
unknown to its meaning that exclusively for the group. Thus, there comes the awareness of gender
sensitivity using the approach Gender-Sensitive Language (linguistic approach on gender). This is the
means to express gender relationships with precision.
Indeed the issues arising from acquiring the language are still served as benchmark to understand
and cater how student learn the language effectively and to identify and build connections of how these
21st century individuals acquire language in connection in the technological driven arena in which
contributes another realm of issues on Language acquisition. The perspective in understanding how the
language is being acquired has changed gradually and gradually progress to be very complex because of
the existence recognizing the other cultural and societal identity.

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