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Direct linkLong, Mike – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005
While almost all observers agree that young children, older children, and adults differ both in initial rate of acquisition and in the levels of ultimate attainment typically achieved, they continue to disagree over whether the observed patterns are a function of nurture or nature. Is it simply that older starters "do not" do as well because they…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Children, Adults, Age Differences
