The bilingual indigenous language project illustrates how the concepts of modularity and the competence-proficiency distinction in particular might be applied to problems of language learning and literacy.
Learning about language: Theories of language learning; Structure and function of language; Language use in a variety of contexts.
Applied to language learning, the concept of the ZPD brings together all of the relevant pieces of the language learning situation including 'the teacher, the learner, their social and cultural history, their goals and motives, as well as the resources available to them, including those that are dialogically constructed together' (Aljaafreh and Lantolf, 1994).
As part of their daily learning, the girls also blog about their own work and comment on classmates' posts in Spanish, thus driving them to call upon language learning concepts to communicate in a real-life context.
(332) It should be noted, however, that nothing in the logic and semantics of ostensive definitions warrants a foundationalist picture of concepts or of language-learning.
This linguistic view of learning results in a unified view of learning language, learning through language, and learning about language (Halliday 2007).
Now, the concept of learning languages is something close to Diego Marani's heart: as well as working as a senior linguist for the EU, he has invented Europanto, a language without rules which can incorporate words from as many European languages as you like in order to help yourself be understood.
However, they assumed a very restricted domain, and the question remains how far the modeling of perception, concept formation, and of semantic and episodic memory needs to be taken to support unrestricted language learning.
Content based language learning.
Native speakers of each language learn the other language.
