Language is a really powerful thing in the world; it is the thing we use especially in communication. Teaching is one of the profession where dealing with communication and with the use of language it is power to teach and to learn, especially we the Filipino learners. The Filipino learners’ acquisition of a second language is influenced by personal, school, and home-related factors. When properly motivated, properly guided and adequately provided with learning materials in English, the students will confidently develop and enhance their communicative competence, which is one of the requirements to thrive the world and being globally recognized by the use of our L2 which is English, the universal language.
I agree on the statement that our L2 is learned and it should start as early as the child is in his/her early age, when it is learned at first we know that grammatical error and the wrong sentence construction is inevitable that’s why learning makes it perfect and by the successive learning, it will improve, and polishing the L2 is in the mid-learning and the fluency and communication skills will be used as they grow older. There are things that we can’t easily understand at first but reading and reflecting on Cecilia M. Mendiola’s research about the L1 and L2 of learners, it opens our eyes and clarify our queries and questions about our L2.
And as a language learner, as we learn little by little about these things we can definitely learn the essential view of L1 and L2, and how to teach them. Learners’ are learners’ that need to learn, and learning is upgrading to the whole new level. Since errors are part of all natural learning, teachers may demonstrate a more tolerant stance toward students and view them more positively as a means through which students’ learning strategies may be inferred. Teachers must work toward strengthening the students’ language proficiency to enhance learners’ critical thinking and academic performance since language proficiency correlates with critical thinking and academic achievement.
Sources:
Mendiola, Cecile M. THE FILIPINO AS A SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNER.
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