Age and Acquisition - created from Mind Map

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Dispelling Myths

Types of comparison and contrast

The critical period hypothesis

Neurogical considerations

Cognitive considerations

Affective considerationes

Linguistic considerations

Recommend

1. We must practice and practice

2. Language Learning is mainly a matter of imitation

3. We practice the separate sounds

4. Watch a small child's speech development

The comparison of fist of second language can easily be over simplified.

To aproach the comparison by first considering the differences between children and adults

A biologically determined period of life when language can be adquired more easily

Hemispheric lateralization

Biological timetables

Right Hemispheric Participation

The significance of accent

Left hemisphery

Right hemisphery

Funtions

Intellectual, logical and analytic

Funtions

Emotional and social needs

Scovel cited evidences for a sociobiological critical period in variaus species

There is a significant participation in the second language

It is particularly active during the earluystages

Foreign accent

Phonology

Authentic

Intellectual development in a child

Sensorimotos stages

Preoperational stage

Operational stage

Concrete operational stage

Formal operational stage

Inhibitions

Language ego

Second identity

Acttitudes

Peer pressure

Bilingualism

Interference between first and second langage

Interference in adults

Order of Aquisitions