Second language question: Bilingual Children Age plays a significant role in learning a new language. It is not easy to learn a new language for adults. There are many difficulties and obstacles facing those who want to learn a new language. Languages differ from each other, the most important way of reading and grammar. Learning a new language like a child at the beginning of learning to speak. According the essay “Literacy: A Lineage”, by Melanie Luken, who was a French and English major at the Ohio State University “Studying a foreign language can, at times, be just like learning how to read and write as a child”(135). This statement made me wonder is it possible to be adults and children have the same capacity to learn a new language?
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I have realized that there is a difference between children and adult in language learning. Children have the ability to learning a foreign language and achieve like native speakers more quickly than adults. I believe there are several key factors that play an important role in a child 's growth and learning new language. Children who know two languages and their mental performance are governed by the highest, and there are also long-term benefits, including that the acquisition of two languages. Unlike me, or adults who start learning the language in the later stages, they face many obstacles in learning and perhaps take a long time even mastered the language. In this paper I will discuss the fundamental factors that help the child to master a second language, as well as the positive and negative impact on the …show more content…
From the perspective of my friend, he believes that teaching children a new language is important while living aboard, and he also wants his daughters to acquire English language very nicely. They speak English at home and outside. He tells me his daughters face some problems sometimes when speaking, they blend together all the languages during the conversation. However, the child may blends together all these languages during the conversation, but not for this blending any disadvantages, as it is temporary. When the child is able to acquire all the vocabulary and language proficiency in their use, this phenomenon will disappear automatically. Miar and Meral blend Arabic and English all together when speaking, for example when they ask for water “mom I want water” they say the whole sentence in Arabic except the word water. But when the child able to speak the two languages constantly, he will not commit such a mistake. In the end, if the parents do not use more than one language while talking and mix with each other, the child remains constant to speak in one language and will not blend between
I have realized that there is a difference between children and adult in language learning. Children have the ability to learning a foreign language and achieve like native speakers more quickly than adults. I believe there are several key factors that play an important role in a child 's growth and learning new language. Children who know two languages and their mental performance are governed by the highest, and there are also long-term benefits, including that the acquisition of two languages. Unlike me, or adults who start learning the language in the later stages, they face many obstacles in learning and perhaps take a long time even mastered the language. In this paper I will discuss the fundamental factors that help the child to master a second language, as well as the positive and negative impact on the …show more content…
From the perspective of my friend, he believes that teaching children a new language is important while living aboard, and he also wants his daughters to acquire English language very nicely. They speak English at home and outside. He tells me his daughters face some problems sometimes when speaking, they blend together all the languages during the conversation. However, the child may blends together all these languages during the conversation, but not for this blending any disadvantages, as it is temporary. When the child is able to acquire all the vocabulary and language proficiency in their use, this phenomenon will disappear automatically. Miar and Meral blend Arabic and English all together when speaking, for example when they ask for water “mom I want water” they say the whole sentence in Arabic except the word water. But when the child able to speak the two languages constantly, he will not commit such a mistake. In the end, if the parents do not use more than one language while talking and mix with each other, the child remains constant to speak in one language and will not blend between