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Peer reviewedLamendella, John T. – Language Learning, 1977
Attempts to characterize and contrast aspects of functional organization of neuropsychological systems carrying out primary language acquisition and two types of nonprimary language acquisition: secondary language acquisition and foreign language learning. There appears an intrinsic neurofunctional basis for the greater facility of young children…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedZierer, Ernesto – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
This article reports on experiences in the bilingual education, psychologically and pedagogically planned, of a child who died of brain cancer at age 5. Conclusions are drawn regarding order and method of language learning. (CHK)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Development
Download full textPeltzer-Karpf, Annemarie – 1996
A discussion of the biological and developmental issues in early second language learning first looks at psycholinguistic research on brain growth patterns and the relationship of first and second language learning. Focus is on three phenomena observed in the self-organization of living systems: selection of input data; organization of specialized…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
