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Automatic Language Growth (ALG) is an approach to second language teaching that attempts to replicate the processes of early childhood first and second-language acquisition with the aim of having adults effortlessly learn new languages to near-native or native-like levels of fluency. It rejects the hypothesis of a critical period or maturational constraints on second language acquisition, arguing that the observed decline in second language attainment with age is not the result of a loss of ability but actually the result of using abilities gained with maturity to consciously study and practice language that interfere with acquisition and ultimate attainment. It claims that if adults "learn languages like children", implicitly by listening to comprehensible input with understandable experiences, without conscious study or practice, they can achieve the same level of results as those who learned a second language in infancy or early childhood.

ALG was developed starting in the mid-1980s by American linguist J. Marvin Brown, who based it on the natural approach but extended the length of the silent period to hundreds of hours. Like the natural approach and other comprehension approaches, ALG emphasizes understanding of language, but focuses on creating interesting and memorable experiences or happenings as the source of comprehensible input in the target language.

As a theory, ALG aims to be "a real science of language acquisition"[1] that avoids reification of constructs in favor of developing models based on the actual physical workings of the brain.

Theory

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Rejection of the Critical Period

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Damage and the Ceiling

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Assessment

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For language assessment, comparison to native speaker: "Our point of reference or comparison is the native speaker, not other students."[2]

ALGie equation

 

Methods

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Comprehensible input

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Techniques

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TPR

Silent Period

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Two teachers

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Crosstalk

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Reading and writing

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History

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J. Marvin Brown

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Perceptual control theory

 
AUA Language Center

Natural Approach

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The Listening Approach

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Automatic Language Growth

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Usage — where method is used

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Reception

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Some students of the AUA Thai Program have complained of a lack of interaction in class because of the focus on input of the approach.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Brown, J. Marvin. From The Outside In. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  2. ^ "Principles of ALG | ALG World". algworld.com. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  3. ^ Liu, Yu-Ling; Wen, Su-Mei (2010). "Utilizing Crosstalk to Help Older Adult Language Learners Attain Comprehensible Input" (PDF). Journal of Nan Kai. 7, No. 2: pp.37-44. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Cummings, Joe (1995). Bangkok: A Lonely Planet City Guide. Lonely Planet Publications. p. 49.
  5. ^ 1952-, Cummings, Joe, (1995). Bangkok, a Lonely Planet city guide. Cummings, Joe, 1952- (2nd ed ed.). Hawthorn, Vic, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 9780864422439. OCLC 32041015. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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