Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain...

Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process of learning...

The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported...

second-language acquisition (SLA) is to shed light on how people who already know one language learn a second language. The field of second-language acquisition...

Statistical language acquisition, a branch of developmental psycholinguistics, studies the process by which humans develop the ability to perceive, produce...

Gestures in language acquisition are a form of non-verbal communication involving movements of the hands, arms, and/or other parts of the body. Children...

Language acquisition is a natural process in which infants and children develop proficiency in the first language or languages that they are exposed to...

first language acquisition and additional language acquisition is that the process of additional language acquisition is influenced by languages that the...

monitor theory. According to Krashen, the acquisition of a language is a natural process; whereas learning a language is a conscious one. In the former, the...

need to assume an innate language acquisition device exists (see above). Rather than a LAD evolved specifically for language, empiricists believe that...

Third-language acquisition (TLA), sometimes called third-language learning—otherwise referred to as L3 (language 3) acquisition, refers to multilinguals...

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second-language acquisition is the study of why some people learn a second language better than others. Unlike children who acquire a language, adults...

acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language Acquisition (psychology), learning Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response...

learned and about pedagogical methodology for language acquisition. He held that language acquisition must be allied with sensation and experience. Teaching...

both languages in the acquisition of a simultaneous bilingual. It may also occur from a mature speaker's first language (L1) to a second language (L2)...

known as the monitor model, is a group of five hypotheses of second-language acquisition developed by the linguist Stephen Krashen in the 1970s and 1980s...

both isolation from speakers of the first language ("L1") and the acquisition and use of a second language ("L2"), which interferes with the correct production...

similar language experience to the child. Native speakers are considered to be an authority on their given language because of their natural acquisition process...

log-normality was found in relation to sentence length. The fact that during language acquisition, children are largely only exposed to positive evidence, meaning...

plays an important role in the performance of English language acquisition as a foreign language. In some programs, educational materials (including spoken...

were a way of tapping into learners' natural mechanisms for second-language acquisition, and weren't concerned with real-life communication per se. TBLT...

Quixtan Poz 1988). The acquisition data for Kʼicheʼ and other Mayan languages have profound implications for language acquisition theory (Pye, Pfeiler and...

main ways: language acquisition: how do children acquire language? language comprehension: how do people comprehend language? language production: how do...

Bialystok link communication strategies to her general theory of second-language acquisition. There was more activity in the 1990s with a collection of papers...

acquisition of American Sign Language". A central task for the pioneers of sign language linguistics was trying to prove that ASL was a real language...

between acquisition and learning can be useful in discussing language learning, as the general conditions in the case of second language acquisition offer...

Philosophy of language refers to the philosophical study of the nature of language. It investigates the relationship between language, language users, and...

learning aspects of a second language (L2). If language learning is a cognitive process, rather than a language acquisition device, as the school led by...

field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can only achieve native-like fluency in a language before a certain age. It is the...