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Download full textYoung-Scholten, Martha – 1999
A review of research on the development of linguistic competence in second language learners looks at the role played by input to children in their development of linguistic competence, the nature of children's metalinguistic development, and the same processes in the naturalistic second language learning of adults, and then examines the role of a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
