This article focuses on the uncertainty surrounding issue of Critical Period Hypothesis. It puts forward case that, with regard to naturalistic situations, hypothesis has status both “not proven” and unfalsified. The analyzes a number reasons for this situation, including effects multi-competence, which remove any possibility that competence in more than one language can ever be identical monol...

The Critical Period Hypothesis is still controversial recently, so it cannot be said to absolutely confirmed false. It more important realize the significance of application. Although exact properties this phenomenon remain unclear and literature divided, Chinese mothers choose teach English or other languages as a second language their children from very early age (0-3 years old). This paper d...

The present study intended to investigate the processing behavior of 2 groups of L2 learners of English (high and mid in proficiency) and a group of English native speakers on English active and passive reduced relative clauses. Three sets of tasks, an offline task, and 2 online tasks were conducted. Results revealed that the high-proficiency group’s performance was the same as that of the nati...

The ultimate attainment level of Second Language Acquisition (L2A) contrasts sharply with that of First Language Acquisition (L1A) (Birdsong, 1999, p.1). That is: various success versus universal success (Gleitman & Newport, 1995, p.1). This significant difference between L1A and L2A is explained by the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH). The CPH states that for language acquisition, either first...

Given the general failure experienced by adults when attempting to learn a second or foreign language, many have hypothesized that a critical period exists for the domain of language learning. Supporters of the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) contend that language learning, which takes place outside of this critical period (roughly defined as ending sometime around puberty), will inevitably be...