Abstract
Using a multiple-case embedded research design (Yin, 1994), this study examined the nature of EFL learners who are learning or acquiring English language as a foreign language. The purpose of this project is to explore the errors/mistakes that might be made by the Kurdish EFL undergraduate learners, with the causes behind them and try to find out the appropriate method to apply it with the foreign language learners in order to learn English language. The data which were collected from them were analyzed in order to explain their errors or mistakes. It would be useful to find out the reasons behind them for those who care about how the English language is learned, and try to find out the appropriate theory to apply it with the FL learners in order to learn it. The data was collected in various ways in order to evaluate their mistakes. This assignment highlights the following aspects: the literature overview of the theories of FL learning, then the methodology, which deals with the two cases, next, participant analyses and finally the conclusion will be presented. The results served as contrasting and to some extent similar case studies. Results suggested that the best way for learning a new language can be through communication and involvement. Examples of evaluating each case were shown. Though, in the analysis there is an indication to the socio-cultural and cognitivist theories are more satisfactory and appropriate than behaviourism in the SLA field, possibly behaviourism is more significant to understand some parts of their history in order to know how they have been taught. On the other hand, this study cannot be generalized due to the small number of the participants and also different personality might have different ways to learn and acquire English language.
Highlights
The aim of this study is to highlight the best way (s) and theory(s) that people learn or acquire English language through
From the investigation conducted with the two participants one can notice that Nawal, the Arab, had had a limited formal instruction in English because of poor quality of didactic transmission at Baghdad schools. When she had arrived in Sulaimani she had regular opportunities to use English due to her communication with her teachers, especially private native speaker teacher. She is a representative of naturalistic theory which maintains that a learner learns and communicates in the language at the same time
She started to study English again with the English native speaker and she is in progress. She had the ability to speak English confidently she made many mistakes grammatically. Perhaps she had hypermotivation in acquiring language according to Krashen's fifth hypothesis, or according to (Dornyei and Schmitt, 1999) it might relate to the instrumental motivation, which refers to professional reasons for learning a language, because she wants to pass an examination and to get a good job with high salary, beside that she likes English very much
Summary
The aim of this study is to highlight the best way (s) and theory(s) that people learn or acquire English language through. LA is "The process of learning a native or a second language (L2). When Children acquire a language they learn it unconsciously and unaware of grammatical rules. This is similar to the first language acquisition. According to Ellis (1997), second language acquisition (SLA) can be defined as the way that people learn another language beyond their mother tongue in different environments. In line with this Haynes (2005) states that, young students need plenty of practices in the process of acquiring English through communicating with their classmates
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