Well, the original purpose of this journal was to help with my
studies and my work. Here's an essay I've just completed: see
what you think. Compare the concepts of language acquisition and
language learning with reference to your reading and experience.
Explain their relevance to three different learning situations
in which you have had a direct teaching role. Since the
nineteenth century and the rise of various theories of how
languages are learned, one consistent area of research has been
how children learn their mother languages, and how best that can
be replicated in the language classroom in order to facilitate
the simplest and easiest way of learning a target language.
Since the 1970s, further research has been undertaken into
understanding the differences between the seemingly unconscious
way in which young children learn and the way in which adult
learners learn languages, what processes are involved and how
these might affect how we learn, and teach, languages. Arguably
the currently most dominant t