1. second language acquisition
... public school at the age of eight, hence during the critical period. After only one year he speaks almost as native speakers with the American accent, he masters grammar and vocabulary and all this without struggles or effort as it seems. As we know, an instinct happens to everybody and does not need prodding to happen. Consequently we can consider that ... analogy compares our brain to a computer. Similarly to the computer that we get with preinstalled software, our brains have a special area for learning language, which is pre-wired for assimilating vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. In...
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