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Service, Elisabet; Yli-Kaitala, Hely; Maury, Sini; Kim, Jeong-Young – Language Learning, 2014
Although the significance of age in second language acquisition is one of the most hotly debated issues in the field, very few studies have directly addressed age differences in the language learning process. The present study investigated learning in a foreign-word repetition task. Young Finnish adults and 8-year-olds repeated back Korean words.…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Task Analysis
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Fathman, Ann – Language Learning, 1975
A test was administered to 200 children (ages 6-15) who were learning ESL to study the relationship between age and the rate of learning. The results indicated that while the rate of learning English as a second language changes with age, the order of acquisition remains constant. (MS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, English (Second Language)
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Wagner-Gough, Judy; Hatch, Evelyn – Language Learning, 1975
Studies of second language acquisition have concentrated primarily on the speech production of their subjects. This article discusses the relationship between speech directed to the learner and his speech production. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, Children
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Boeschoten, Hendrik E.; Verhoeven, Ludo Th. – Language Learning, 1987
Data on Dutch-Turkish language-mixing behavior of Turkish children growing up in The Netherlands are presented and analyzed. While functional characteristics of the children's language-mixing were compatible with models from earlier research, structural analysis suggests no universality of surface structure constraint rules for sentence-internal…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Code Switching (Language)