Crossword Puzzle

4. it can lead to a raise in the affective filter and form a 'mental block' that hinders comprehensible input from being employed for acquisition.
5. Inhibition in a person emerges when he/she attempts to defend or protect his/her self-image.
6. It refers to a personal evaluation and judgment of worthiness that is expressed in the individual's attitude towards himself or herself or his or her capabilities.
12. Some perspectives to language acquisition are neutral in that they consider the environment and biological influences.
13. One of the characteristics that has been found to exist in "good" language learners is the willingness to guess.
16. The learning view of language acquisition process is supported by the empiricists and associationists.
17. has been found to correlate strongly with educational achievement.
18. Are those that the individual language learner brings with him or her to the particular learning situation.
19. Being the oldest and most widely held approach to language acquisition, socialization theory focuses on the role of caregivers’ speech as the main sources of social wisdom.
20. Learners who have acquired general knowledge and __________ are in a stronger position to develop a new language than those who have not.
21. Second language acquisition is influenced by the ___ of the learner.

1. It is known as our first language. It is stated in the module that students who are learning a second language which is from the same language family as their first language have, in general, a much easier task than those who are not.
2. The realm of child language acquisition is dominated by different competing perspectives.
3. Commonly defined as the process by which humans get the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate.
7. Are those that characterize the particular language learning situation.
8. In general, it seems that students with greater _________ abilities(intelligence) will make faster progress.
9. Claims that language is innately derived from a series of genetically programmed structures.
10. It is associated with the feelings of uneasiness, self- doubt, worry or fear that a person feels under certain circumstances.
11. it affect learners progress particularly in the development of oral skills.
14. Developmental theorists view language as a mental activity whose acquisition is mediated by cognitive maturity.
15. it refers to an individual's ability to put himself/herself in the other's shoes.