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By: Mrs. Jobeneigh Garcia-Apduhan Instructor

Human beings use language to communicate as members of a social group and culture. Animals communicate through sounds but do not have language in the way humans do, which requires rules, sounds, and vocabulary. For people to understand each other, they must belong to the same speech community and share the same set of language rules. Children acquire their native language from those in their community through first language acquisition. A second language is one learned later and may become dominant. Language is learned through formal study or informal exposure. When language users from different language backgrounds interact, they can communicate through challenges but may develop new language forms over time.

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By: Mrs. Jobeneigh Garcia-Apduhan Instructor

Human beings use language to communicate as members of a social group and culture. Animals communicate through sounds but do not have language in the way humans do, which requires rules, sounds, and vocabulary. For people to understand each other, they must belong to the same speech community and share the same set of language rules. Children acquire their native language from those in their community through first language acquisition. A second language is one learned later and may become dominant. Language is learned through formal study or informal exposure. When language users from different language backgrounds interact, they can communicate through challenges but may develop new language forms over time.

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INTRODUCTION

B Y: M R S . J O B E N E I G H G A R C I A - A P D U H A N

INSTRUCTOR
Nature of Language
•Language, a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written
symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group
and participants in its culture, express themselves. (Brittanica, 2020)
•Human Capacity
Do animals use language?
•Animals are said to be able to communicate with each other.
•Whales sing, wolves howl, dogs bark, and birds chirp.
•The sounds theses creatures produce often reflect the state of their emotions.
•Animals communicate, but only humans use language.
What is Language?
•Linguists agree that a language can only be called a language if it has a system of
rules (grammar), a sound system (phonology), and a vocabulary (lexicon).
Speech Community
•When people use language, they can understand each other because they belong to the
same speech community.

•They can understand each other because in their speech community, pople share the same
set of rules in the language system.
Language Acquisition
•First language acquisition refers to the way children learn their native language/
mother tongue. 
•While growing up, people acquire the languages used by those in the community.
•First Language
Second Language
•A person's second language, or L2, is a language that is not the native language
of the speaker, but is learned later. A speaker's dominant language, which is the
language a speaker uses most or is most comfortable with, is not necessarily the
speaker's first language. The second language can also be the dominant one.
•People learn this languages by studying formally in school or informally on their
own.
Language Learning
•It is the process of acquiring and learning a certain language.

Share same set


Humans + Same Speech of rules in the Language Second
Understanding First Language
Language Community language Acquisition Langauge
system
Language Contact
•What happens if you, for example, who speaks a mother tongue and English, go
to work in China where the residents speak Mandarin and a little bit of English?
Will you be able to communicate with the Chinese?
•YES!
•It will be a challenge for you and your Chinese friends to try to understand each
other, eventually you will be able to communicate as you slowly learn each
other’s language.
Language Change
•The result of such contact may be a new form of language.
•It is possible that in your attempt to communicate with each other,
you and your Chinese friends will produce a new language form that
is understandable to both of you.
•Your own language may also change as you constantly interact and
communicate with each other.

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