Considerations

=Considerations in L2 Acquisition=
 * Acculturation ~ admustment to a new cultural setting
 * Code Switching ~ changing from one language to another in conversation
 * Avoidance ~ act of avoiding or shunning
 * Displacement ~ communicate about things that aren't in the room
 * Negative Transfer ~ incorrectly applying L1 structure to L2
 * Overgeneraization ~ over apply a new rule
 * Register ~ formal / informal
 * Dialectal Variation ~ regional or social language
 * Coined Phrases ~ idiomatic expressions
 * Self-correction ~ correct one's language
 * Circumlocution ~ speaker describes a word he doesn't know (father of my father = grandfather)
 * As related to English ????
 * Figurative language
 * Superlatives/comparatives
 * Relative Clauses/Dependent Clauses

=5 Syntactic Challenges for the ELL=
 * Passive Voice
 * Comparatives/Superlatives
 * Modals (verbs that don't change)
 * Verb Phrases
 * Relative Clauses/Dependent Clauses/Relative pronouns

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