Primal Stages Of First Language Acquisition

Thesis statement: As human beings we have the ability to learn every and each language that we are exposed to during our first years in this world. Furthermore, there are several differences between the ways that comprehend and learn our mother-tongue and our second language. Our second language is somehow our mother-tongue too since being called a second language and not a foreign one means that it is used in our community.The primal stages of first language acquisition are the pre-language stage, one word stage, two words stage, telegraphic speech, basic master, also elaboration and expansion, while the second acquisition early stages are the pre-production or silent period, the early production period, the speech emergence period, The Intermediate

Even if the baby uses plenty of words compared to the prior stages it is still not nearly enough, since it can only barely make sense. The sentences it creates are from three to four words just connecting the words. It can also use plurals and attempts to figure out how the tenses work. The progress here leads to the fact that the child is able to make more complete sentences than before such as ( He is playing ball, mommy eat carrot). The last stage is the basic mastery where it is complete by the age of four or five years old. At that point the young child has already acquired over 1000 words and the basics of morphology, phonology and syntax. Even if these are the stages of first language acquisition there is also the continued acquisition due to the fact that a child keeps learning for numerous years about the language and apart from that there are some grammatical or semantic rules especially in Eastern countries that take longer time for children to

Direct translation from your first language to the second does not usually work. One fluent speaker of two languages would be able to distinguish the differences between the languages due to the fact that he has two habbits. Component speakers have the ability to move from one language to the other and thinking like the native speakers do when they talk, without translating. (Weigel, May, 1919). The initial stages in both first language and second language acquisition are crucial for a person to take the starting steps and gather knowledge about the world around him. Furthermore, it is ironic how an adult has a variety of similar elements with a baby, when he learns a new language. Even if babies seem to be uncapable of doing anything in that age, they are skillful enough to learn a language from zero, without having any experience in the past and that alone is a