First Language (FL) Acquisition.

First Language:

Is the Language that you acquire to speak first as child, the Language that you speak best?

How a FL is learnt?

 

Many researchers neveal, that when we are child, we acquire our mother tongue by behaviours.

B. F. Skinner says that behaviour approach to language and that a language is not a mental phenomen; it is behaviour like other forms of human behaviour, and it is learnt by a process of habit- formation and imitation , in which the main components are:

1. The child imitates the sounds and patterns which he hears around him.
2. People recognize the child's attempts as beign similar to the adult models and reinforce the sounds, by approval or some other desirable reaction.
3. In order to obtain more of these rewards, the child repeat the sounds and patterns so that these become habits.
4. In this way the child's verbal behabiour is conditioned until the habits coinade with the adult models.

This is the way, we acquired the FL.

 

When we enter primary school the teacher uses different methods to teach us how to read, how to write, how pronounce words, etc.

From primary school to high school we learnt many things about our language like grammar, vocabulary, structures, what is very important to know everything about our mother tongue because researchers in FL acquisition has had an enormous influence on the study of second language learning.