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Tan, Tony Xing; Loker, Troy; Dedrick, Robert F.; Marfo, Kofi – Journal of Child Language, 2012
In this study we investigated adopted Chinese girls' expressive English language outcomes in relation to their age at adoption, chronological age, length of exposure to English and developmental risk status at the time of adoption. Vocabulary and phrase utterance data on 318 girls were collected from the adoptive mothers using the Language…
Descriptors: Age, Females, Foreign Countries, Expressive Language
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Liu, Zhiliang – English Language Teaching, 2009
The optimal age in FLL (foreign language learning) for children has been discussed over 50 years but there is no satisfactory conclusion for us. However, the notion "the younger, the better" in FLL has a big market in the world. As a result, the distorted hypothesis is being spread widely as a true and complete theory. Specifically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Age Differences, Cognitive Structures