The Critical Period Hypothesis Revisited: The Implications for Current Foreign Language Teaching to Young Learners
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critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language
since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Language Teaching and Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1798-4769
DOI: 10.4304/jltr.2.4.757-762