Age and Aquisition

Age and Aquisition

1. Neurological

   • How neurological development affect Second Language Aquisition
     • Hemispheric lateralization
     • Biological timetables
     • Right hemisphere participation
     • Anthropological evidence

2. Phonological

   • Support the notion of critical period
   • Authentic native speaker
     • Pronunciation of a foreign language

3. Affective

   • Includes: Empathy, inhibition, extrovertion, anxiety, imitation, self-estem, attitudes

4. Linguistics Considerations

   • Bilingualism
   • Interference between first and second languages
   • Interference in adults
   • Order of Aquisition

5. Cognitive

   • Develops through the first sixteen years of life
   • A person becomes acapable of formal thinking
     • Connect Second Language with concrete stage transition