Social Context of the Language Learning Environment
Sharing Your Experiences Learning a New Language If you have studied or acquired another language, share your language-learning story with the group.
Using the stories, discuss the effects on second language acquisition of differences, such as age, culture, language learning situation, and opportunities to use the new language with native speakers.
Reflecting further, what do you recall as the hardest part? Why was it hard? What was easy? Why was it easy? How proficient did you become? What affected your degree of proficiency? Which theoretical approach best explains how you learned the new
language?
