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This runner is in the starting position before the race begins. This symbolizes how the child is innately wired and ready to acquire, explore and utilize language.

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Colour Yellow- It represents slows down, experimenting, brainstorming, trial error, its not a go nor a stop.
Symbol- Loading. Over the language acquisition period there are certain phases that students go through on their way to learning, such as interlanguage patterns and potential fossilization.

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This image shows involvement and interaction, both things that are significant in the process of social interaction. Frequent involvement allows learners to obtain new language

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This commonly known symbol represents recycling, but through imitation and habit forming Language learners are doing their own process of recycling. Re using the sounds again and again.

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We chose the recycling symbol to represent the continuous exchange of dialogue and feedback during social interaction that Vygotsky said is vital to language acquisition.

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An important aspect of the interactionist theory of language acquisition is getting scaffolded support from others who are proficient speakers.

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We chose orange to represent the process of positive social interactions, friendliness, and encouragement.

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3B SYMBOL - Zone of Proximal Development

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3B SYMBOL - Zone of Proximal Development

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Language acquisition can be viewed from an interactionist view, proposed by Lev Vygotsky. In this theory, language learning takes place when others interact with the student just outside of their current level of understanding. This then becomes their new performance level. The bullseye was used to represent the learning goal in the middle with the zones of proximal development surrounding it as the student learns and adapts.

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"second language learners listen to the language they hear around them and subconsciously seek patterns"

This image represents how our brain subconsciously forms patterns. The letters represent how the brain learns to attach meaning to symbols.

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SUN/SUNFLOWER- sunflower will grow with sunlight and rotates based on where the sun is rotating. Imitating the same way that kids will imitate their parents behaviour linguistic patterns

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the roundabout of young learners in languages

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the roundabout of young learners in languages

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nurturing, calmness, learning

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YELLOW - represents positive reinforcement

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This gradient blue represents the innate cognitive processes of learning language through social interaction - starting at the lighter end, children interact with adults that support language development by expanding on what children say. This is represented by the darkening (the meaning making/connections) of the colour.

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Please remember to include a justification for your choice of colour, symbol and image