Cognitive process of grammar acquisition

Question 1

noticing

Answer 1

noticing hypothesis

learners pay attention to certain language features
after noticing and interpreting the relationship between form and meaning –> intake

Question 2

hypothesizing and reasoning

Answer 2

seeing patterns in the language
creating hypotheses about the rules these patterns might demonstrate

Question 3

reasoning deductively

Answer 3

applying already known rules to work out the meaning of new formulation

Question 4

analysing contrastively

Answer 4

comparison of L1 and L2 and working out their similarities and differences

Question 5

translating

Answer 5

the need to translate mentally in the early and consolidation stages of FL learning
translation can be a helpful strategy

Question 6

transferring

Answer 6

application of knowledge of one language to the understanding or production of another

Question 7

structuring and restructuring

Answer 7

integration of new rules into the representation of English grammar of students
+ restructuring them as the learners move on to another stage of development

Question 8

automatizating

Answer 8

through repeated practice of the successful form its use will ultimately become automatic

Question 9

stabilizing

Answer 9

stabilization of the knowledge

Question 10

fossilization

Answer 10

if the process was automatized prematurely, there might be errors fossilized