When we know much about language, it will make us to be successful in teaching of a second language. However, the gap between a child acquiring his first language and a child learning a second language, at a time when he already possesses language, is likely to be so big that any direct application of [...]
A major issue in the field of the CA hypothesis is the difference between children and adults in language acquisition. Symptoms of traumatic aphasia (direct, structural and local interference with neurophysiological processes of language) that occur under age 13 are reversible, whereas those that occur after 13 are not. Non-deaf children of
The CA hypothesis rests on the following assumptions about the process of language learning: *) Language learning is habit formation. *) An old habit (that of using one’s first language) hinders or facilitates the formation of a new habit (learning a second language) depending on the differences or similarities, respectively, between the old and the [...]
Statement of the Hypothesis The last two decades of enthusiasm for contrastive analysis in foreign language teaching can be traced as: The most effective materials are those that are based upon a scientific description of the language to be learned, carefully compared with a parallel description of the native language of the learner. Incoming search [...]
Most parents who have lived abroad have marvelled at how easily their children pick up a foreign language, and perhaps have wondered about their child’s unusual talent. Many children, without the benefit of formal classroom instruction, learn the language of a new country in the first year thay are there. How do they do it? [...]