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Second Language Acquisition - Age
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- 1Definition of CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS?Claims, that there is an ideal time window to acquire language in a linguistically rich environment, after which language acquisition becomes much more difficult and effortful
- 2What are SIMULTANEOUS BILINGUALS?Children, that acquire two language from birth
- 3What are SEQUENTIAL BILINGUALSChildren, that learn one language from birth and another during childhood
- 4Differences age INITIAL STAGES of LEARNINGolder childs, adults often progress faster than early child learners in the INITIAL STAGES (grammar etc.)
But the children will surpass their older peers and gain more proficiency. - 5Role of UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR in AGETheory: Universal linguistic principle are present from birth. But parameters vary from language to language.
UG remains into adulthood, but the ability to reset the parameters for each language is lost. - 6Biological theory of acquiring language regarding AGE?The brain loses the ability for adaption and reorganization with age (puberty seems to be a remarkable indicator)
Studies with brain damage (Lenneberg 1967) - 7Age and NATIVE ACCENTCommon theory: Only child learners are capable of acquiring a native accent in informal contexts
- 8Age and NATIVE GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCECommon theory: Children may be more likely to acquire a native grammatical competence
- 9Age and levels of attainment SLACommon theory: Children are more likely to reach higher levels of attainment in both pronunciation and grammar than adults
- 10Age and PROCESS of acquiring a second language.The process of acquiring a second language grammar is not substantially affected by age, but that of acquiring pronunciation my be.
- 11Motivation vs. neurologyMarinova-Todd et al. (2000):
Motivation, rather than neurology, is the determining factor in SLA success...
Some older beginner achieved native like proficiency because they were highly motivated
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