Using Language in the Community for Enhancing

Language is something that distinguishes humans from animals and all humans are biologically programmed to gain knowledge with language as the catalyst. Nativists such as Noam Chomsky proposed that all humans have a language acquisition device which contains knowledge of the grammatical rules common to all languages (Shaffer, Wood, & Willoughby, 2002, pp.391-394). Language acquisition is therefore a subconscious process and the person is not consciously aware of the grammatical rules of the language he or she is acquiring. The focus is on understanding the language one encounters, or enabling one’s audience to understand what one means.An individual receives ‘comprehensible input’from the environment, which is easy to interpret due to the accompanying contextual and nonlinguistic cues and also because it is in a ‘low stress’situation. The language that we acquire, be it in the form of new vocabulary or new expressions, is therefore always a littl