Essays on Critical Period

It is possible to make a statement that currently obesity is the large-scale problem for the population of the United States. The major argumentation for this statement is the fact that as soon as the obesity is diagnosed, there is a set of complications in terms of achievement of the normal weight by obsessed individuals. That is why, the preventive measures, related to obesity and maintenance of the normal weight among the population, have become the essential concerns for the public health. It was stated by the scholars that one of the most effective strategic options for the weight ...

PSYC9120: Psychology Fact & Fiction

Entry 1 For many times since I was in elementary, I always hear that there is the left side of the brain and the right side as well, and that the two sides make different contributions to the behaviour of people. Over the years, I learned and believed that the left side was solely for analytical thinking and sequential thinking, while the right side was for creativity, the hearing language, visual, spatial, and the holistic. I thought that either the right side or the left side of the brain works, depending on what a person is doing. After the ...

Adolescent Food Consumption

I. Adolescence and food consumption during adolescence Adolescence is a critical period of an individual’s growth because this is a stage where most of the growth and development occurs. Most pubescents are sensitive about the food they consume, and they tend to either overeat or undereat. Adolescent eating habits may be either healthy or unhealthy depending on various reasons they may have or encounter. Despite the fact that most teenagers take unhealthy meals there are some adolescents who have good and healthy eating habits. A. Healthy Eating Habits. In a study, researchers conducted a survey of more than ...

Introduction

Language acquisition denotes the procedure by which humans gain the ability to recognize and understand language, along with the ability to create and make use of words and sentences for the purpose of communication. Language acquisition is considered to be one of the exemplary human qualities, Philosophers in early societies were concerned in how humans gained the ability to comprehend and create language well ahead of experimental methods for trying those theories that were developed. However, for the major part they seemed to consider language acquisition as a division of man's ability to gain information and become skilled at ...

Al-Khairy in his study discusses the problems that Saudi-English Learners experince in their quest to improve their wriring skils. He aserts that the nature of the task offered to the student determines to a great extent their proficiency in writing. Al-Khairy in his discussion notes that writing is more than just possesion of knowlegde on a task as it entails the comunication of ideas. Thus if the task at hand implies a level of complexity, then there is no doubt that the student will be faced with a problem in analysing the task as well as gaining ideas that can help them communicate ...

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The effects of bilingualism in a minority language on third language acquisition

Abstract In the area of language acquisition, bilinguals differ from monolinguals in several ways. It is accepted that previous language knowledge is facilitative in developing proficiency in a new language and both the learner’s native and non-native languages can be sources of influence in acquiring a new language. Given the evidence that in some social situations knowledge of a second language is facilitative in learning a third, the paper investigates to what extent knowledge of a widely-spoken but non-official local language can be shown to be facilitative in this way. The students in this study are ...

Language acquisition is the process whereby children acquire the capacity to identify and comprehend a language either native or a second language. Most young children learn a language through observation and listening and from there, they learn to copy what they hear and pronounce it. Young children learn to speak through sounds and vocabulary by imitating what the people around them speaks (Kuhl, 2010). Children are exposed to a language and this exposure helps them to be able to interact with the rest of the people. Children are not taught a language but they acquire it from the people around them at a tender age. ...

Critical period is a hypothesis in linguistics on whether language acquisition is linked to age. According to Davutoglu (152), this hypothesis states that there is an ideal window of acquiring language in an environment that is linguistically rich. Hence, from the hypothesis, after this period, language acquisition becomes hard, and it requires a lot of effort to learn. The crucial time to acquire language is before a person reaches adolescent so long as sufficient stimuli are provided. Therefore, after the critical period, an individual never acquires full competency in learning a second language.

However, evidence of this is limited, and people rely on ...

Critical period hypothesis is not a new concept in language acquisation, because Roberts and Lennberg introduced and followed it up in 1959 and 1967 respectively in the neurolinguistic literature. They hypothesized that the recovery of brain from serious illnesses like trauma would be hindered by the maturation of the brain as one ages. Further researches on the above speculation, particularly those conducted in the behavioral sciences revealed that all the measures of language proficiency varies with the maturation of brain, but the proficiency scores gets low as the persons age increases. For these reasons, the hypothesized biological based critical period ...

The study aims to address and evaluate the influence of age on second-language acquisition. It revealed the critical period hypothesis for the second language (L2) acquisition. According to Flege, Munro and Mackay, in examining the immigrant populations, participants’ age of arrival (AOA) in the host country forms a very vital and important part. AOA is an important factor or determinant to gauge the degree of foreign accent as well as degree of accuracy in the pronunciation of L2 and the study intents to confirm this widely accepted belief.

The observation of age effect on the L2 performance of individuals forms ...

The article under review is titled “The critical period for language acquisition: Evidence from second language learning” by Catherine Snow and Marian Hoefnagal-Hohle.

The article was developed to deal with the common debate that common formulation of the critical period hypothesis that younger is always better in L2A. The article claims that according to critical period hypothesis, first language acquisition needs to take place prior to the completion of cerebral lateralization, around puberty age. The authors make one anticipation of the aforesaid hypothesis, stating that second language acquisition is likely to be more rapid, successful, and qualitatively same ...

The Relationship of Thinking to SLA

Outline for Question #1 (Summarize and refute 3 arguments that indicate cognition as impeding SLA)

I. Introduction

a. Examples of Non-cognitive learning skills (motivation, self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, and others). b. Debate of no cognition vs. cognition in SLA c. Briefly introduce three arguments that oppose thinking

II. First argument: over-analysis a. “When teaching in an EFL context, speaking practice is the quickest and most effective way to learn a language (Berlitz, as cited in Aubrey, 2009, pp. 35-36). b. This means that second language learners learn faster when they just go ahead and speak, without thinking ...

Language acquisition principles.

In an article titled: “Sensitive and advantageous periods in first language learning: What are the implications for very young Japanese learners of English?” As obtained from the International Journal of language, society and culture issue 16-2006 lays emphasis on the importance of exposing learners of English as a second language to the second language at their critical period.

Introduction

English is an international language spoken widely in the world. It is used in most countries for commerce especially international trade, education and technological developments. For these reasons many countries have seen the need of having their citizens to learn English. This ...