Second Language Acquisition is a major topic for linguistics; it’s a set of hypotheses or generalizations that is consistent with experimental data to be able to achieve new data. There has been major research of the attempts of explaining the difference between children and adults in second language acquisition. The assumption of the two is fundamentally flawed when looking into each aspect of learning a second language. It is easily discussed that within learning a second language you can identify that the factors that allow second language learners are the difference in age, individual differences, and learning skills; that come in contact with this process of learning a second language that allows children to learn much easier than it is
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Modified input shows that teachers who talk clearly to the children are able to improve a child’s second language as they focus on the form of the language and correction. (O’Grady et al. 2010, Ch.11 P.418-421) When comparing a child and an adult in a room together for several months research showed that children seem to master pronunciation skills and vocabulary much better than adults. Children always have former approaches that stimulus their learning, they give a response and reinforcement is given back to them where as an adult learns on his own and creates his own learning skills and may not always have back up information if he is incorrect when it comes to pronunciation. Linguistic research believes that “children acquire language through application of innate and universal …show more content…
Factors like age, time, differences and learning skills where able to show that children have the capability to learn at such an ease where as adults can’t. Children are in their early years of learning and learning the proper way. Their main goal as a child is to learn everyday which is what allows them to quickly gain a second language. On the other hand, adults have more tasks and are daily occupied with work, which gives them little to no time to be learning a second
Modified input shows that teachers who talk clearly to the children are able to improve a child’s second language as they focus on the form of the language and correction. (O’Grady et al. 2010, Ch.11 P.418-421) When comparing a child and an adult in a room together for several months research showed that children seem to master pronunciation skills and vocabulary much better than adults. Children always have former approaches that stimulus their learning, they give a response and reinforcement is given back to them where as an adult learns on his own and creates his own learning skills and may not always have back up information if he is incorrect when it comes to pronunciation. Linguistic research believes that “children acquire language through application of innate and universal …show more content…
Factors like age, time, differences and learning skills where able to show that children have the capability to learn at such an ease where as adults can’t. Children are in their early years of learning and learning the proper way. Their main goal as a child is to learn everyday which is what allows them to quickly gain a second language. On the other hand, adults have more tasks and are daily occupied with work, which gives them little to no time to be learning a second