LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN A SECOND LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT
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...
You Can’t Learn Without Goofing – An Analysis of Children’s Second Language Errors
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?...
Indigenous-minority varieties of English
In examining the social and linguistic dimensions of immigrant English, we have seen that the size of the immigrant group and their characteristics on dimensions of status, power, mobility, prestige and wealth, can influence the variety of English acquired. All language learning, whether the child learning his mother tongue, or an adult acquiring a second...
