Childhood experience with a language seems to help adult learners speak it with a more native-like accent. Can analogous benefits be found beyond phonology? This study focused on adult learners of Spanish who had spoken Spanish as their native language before age 7 and only minimally, if at all, thereafter until they began to re-learn Spanish around age 14 years. They were compared with native ...

second language acquisition (sla) always happens when the learners live and have contact with the native speakers of a second language. although this study investigates learning english by ten native children of farsi, the authors try to simulate the second language acquisition environment. the research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language learning o...

Several high-profile commercial aviation accidents in the past that were caused part by inadequate English language proficiency confirmed importance of clear and concise communication between air traffic controllers pilots. Although connection safety has been well established, there very little research concerning relationship flight training performance. Thousands international students who ar...