WhatdotheacronymsTESOL,SLA,L1andL2standfor
TESOLisanacronymwhichstandsforTeachingEnglishtospeakersofotherlanguages
1SLAmeanssecondlanguageacquisition
2L1meansthefirstlanguageasnativetongue,suchasEnglishforpeoplewhocomefromUSAandUK
L2meansthesecondlanguage,suchasEnglishforpeoplewhocomefromChinaandJapan
Nameanddescribethefourfundamentalpropertiesofspokenlanguage
Thephonologicalsystem:thephonemesusedinaparticularlanguage,typicallyonly30or40outofseveralhundredsofpossiblephonemes
3Phonotacticrules:Thesoundsequencesthatalanguageallowstomakeupsyllables;i
variationsofwhatsoundscanstartorendsyllables,whetherthe‘peak’ofthesyllablecanbeasimpleorcomplexorlengthenedvowelandwhethertheendingofthesyllablecanbeavoweloraconsonant
Tonemelodies:thecharacteristicvariationsinhigh,low,risingandfalli