Novice Learners of Arabic in the Lagos State University and Stages of the Second Language Acquisition (SLA): A Preliminary Study
Keywords:
Novice Learners, Arabic Language, Lagos State University, Stages of SLA, SLA.Abstract
Five stages of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) through which L2 acquirers must go before they can attain communicative skills in the L2 has been espoused. Those stages are based on the outcome of a number of researches on English as a foreign language. How far the stages are applicable to the learners of Arabic as a foreign language, especially in the Lagos State University (LASU) is the concern of this investigation. This paper therefore intends to report the outcome of a preliminary observational study of the Stages went through by some novies learners of Arabic as a foreign language in LASU. The author employed experience garnered at the Summer Training Institute on African/2nd Language Teaching organized by the America National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) in order to create ecolinguistic setting to motivate the learners and hence observed the performance of a few of them reported herein. The paper found out, among others, that only three of the stages can be said to be applicable to the class under review, that routines and patterns are very important inputs in SLA and that the length of time each student spent at a particular stage could not be determined but varied considerably.
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