Hello ! ... Language Acquisition, please dear..... :)

What is that???

 Language acquisition is a process and ability of a person to be able to comprehend, understand and use language in a correct manner (interaction and construction of sentences).


First language acquisition (for example: You are born Japanese and your parents using Japanese language in interacting with you since birth, therefore, naturally you learn Japanese language as your First language). Well, that is your First language acquisition ;)





Now, given the next example of language acquisition : Juan (Italian) married to Anna (Australian) and Lily, their daughter was born later. Anna using English to interact with Lily since birth but Juan teaching Italian language to Lily too. So in this case, Lily,first language is English language because she learn it since birth and later learning Italian language from her papa. We also called Lily as Bilingualism ( a person who have the ability to read, write, and speak fluently in two language).

You can find it more here: http://leap.tki.org.nz/What-is-bilingualism

There are more types of language acquisition such as multilingual and monolingual people. 

There are many factors involved in children language of acquisition such as:

•  Parents 

For instance, Jammy (English) married Jenny (English) and have a son. Both of them teach their son English and therefore, the son first language of acquisition is English language. This also related to the Lily case but she is bilingual.

• Environment (country they lived)

For examples, there is a case where Sammy (English) married with Tia (Philippines) and they decided to stay in Korea. After 5 years they have twins, since they stay and work in Korea they are more used to speak in Korea and therefore they teach the twins Korean language because later the twins will also study in Korea. In this case, even though the parents are not Korean, the environment infused their language life and their children to perceived Korean language as their first language acquisition.    

Amazingly, children learn all this trough mimicking, practicing, nature and nurture,  input and others.

Let me give you some examples:

Mimicking
Mom: Son, do our homework now!
Son: (Repeat the tone) Son, do your homework now!
Mom: Do your homework!
Son: (Repeat the tone) Do your homework!

Practicing
Writing and essay and interact with more knowledgeable people using the words that they try to remember and just learn.

Nature and nurture
Nature: Natural process where both parents speak English with their children and children get influence by English language.
Nurture: Reinforcement of words such as (have,has,are...) to children. Re correct the children sentences such as "I have a candy" not "I have an candy".

Input
The time spend learning something new such as spending time reading a book to learn new words or languages.

Mainly through diversity marriages, sometimes it is difficult for the children to identify their first language of acquisition. So parents, please take note on this issues okay ;)