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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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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...

multiple languages. Body language Conversation Sociolinguistics Language acquisition List of language disorders Origin of speech Whistled language Phonocentrism...

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

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

learning mechanism, the phenomenon was first identified in human infant language acquisition. The earliest evidence for these statistical learning abilities comes...

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

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...

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)...

language decreases and exposure to the majority language increases, the majority language becomes the individual’s dominant language and acquisition of...

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...

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

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

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...

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

The generative approach to second language (L2) acquisition (SLA) is a cognitive based theory of SLA that applies theoretical insights developed from...

that infant language acquisition is linked to cognitive pattern recognition. Unlike classical nativist and behavioral theories of language development...

Second-language acquisition classroom research is an area of research in second-language acquisition concerned with how people learn languages in educational...

to second-language acquisition: Second-language acquisition – process by which people learn a second language. Second-language acquisition (often abbreviated...