Second Language Acquisition-Foundations of TESOL

       Three questions that people are trying to seek answers for are: What exactly does the L2 learner come to know?, How does the learner acquire this knowledge?, and Why are some learners more successful than others?  I never really thought about these questions until now.  Researchers have no exact answers, but they have come up with ideas and some have been provided in Chapter 2.  The last question that researchers have proposed is: Why are some L2 learners more successful than others?  Some answers are feedback, aptitude, motivation, and instruction.
       For example, my second language is Spanish.  I began taking Spanish in 6th grade and was clearly motivated to keep taking classes throughout high school and college.  Moreover, this led me to become a Bilingual Education major, specifically Spanish-English.  In high school, my aptitude of learning Spanish was very high and my memory capacity of learning vocabulary was exceptionally high, which thus lead me in taking two AP Spanish classes my Junior year of high school.
       In all, Chapter 2 has introduced me to the foundations of Second Language Acquisition and has begun to answer the three basic questions most second language researchers would like to know.  The bases of the approaches to the study of SLA will eventually answer the what, how, and why.