Yulan Puspita Rini

Filter
Organizer
Monitor
 The most beneficial language environment is
one where language is used naturally for
communication
 Filter is the part of the internal processing
system that subconsciously screens incoming
language based on motives, needs, attitudes, or
emotions.
 Affective filter: individual’s anxiety level, peer
indication, general motivation.
 The filter acts to control entry to further mental
processing
 Once incoming language has passed through the
filter, it reaches organizer. As the mind begins to
take in some of the second language, it
organizes it in a fashion which results in the
common order in which grammatical structures
are learned.
 The part of the internal processing system that is
responsible for the learner’s gradual and
subconscious organization of the new language
system
 That part of the learner’s internal system that
consciously inspects and, from time to time,
alters the form of the learner’s production.
 Monitoring , internal process, is a kind of self-
editing in which person who are very concerned
about linguistic appearances use conscious rules
to produce sentence
 People who have a high desire to communicate
and who are not embarrased by making mistake
use the monitor less than those who are more
self-conscious
 These three processors are affected by the
learner’s personality traits and age, which
inhibit or enhance their activity
 As example: a learner with an outgoing
personality may filter out less language than
one who is less confident, or an adult may
organize more of the language at once than a
young girl
 The errors done by learner
 First, Many assumption that the errors resulted
from differences between the first and the
second languages (the basis of contrastive
analysis theory)
 Now, the first language has a far smaller effect
on second language syntax
 Learner’s first language are no longer believed
to interfere with their attempts to acquire
second language
 The prevailing belief: language is learned by
imitating, memorizing, and being rewarded
for saying the correct things.
 Chomsky: the central force guiding language
acquisition is a language-specific mental
structure. The innate organizational
principles of the language acquisition device
govern all human language and determine
what possible form human language may
take
 Language acquisition is now known to be an
interaction between the child’s innate mental
structure and the language environment, a
“creative construction” process.
 The environmental and mental factors that
influence language learning.