The Effect Of Using Concept Map s On Achieving English Grammar ...

Bruce ( 2006 : 18 ) sees that language acquisition is a product of activeand repetitive and complex learning , "So the two processes are essentiallyrelated to each other but in fact they are essentially different " ( Garcia :2003 ; 35 ) .Stevick ( 1982 : 21 -23 ) believes that the term acquisition used for theformer and learning for what goes in the classroom . In acquisition , theperson who is doing the acquiring meets words in the full context of somekind of genuine human communication , there is no special presentation ofnew item , no organised drilling and no testing in the academic sense , solanguage acquisition has some advantages1- What has been acquired is rel atively permanent .2- What has been acquired serves directly as the basis for smoothproduction either of speech or for writing .3- Children can use what they acquired such as grammar , definite andindefinite article , choice of the right preposition or verb tenses in theirreal life communication correctly .2.4 What are the difference between learning and acquisition :Garcia ( 2003 : 35)mentioned some certain differences betweenlearning and acquisition1- Learning occurs in formal situation s , while acquisition occurs ininformal situations.12