Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
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Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition Author(s): Stephen D. Krashen, Michael A. Long and Robin C. Scarcella Reviewed work(s): Source: TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 573-582 Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3586451 . Accessed: 09/01/2013 08:48
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TESOL QUARTERLY Vol. 13, No. 4 1979 December
Attainment Second in Age,Rate and Eventual LanguageAcquisition*
MichaelA. Long,and RobinC. Scarcella StephenD. Krashen, This paper presents evidencefor three generalizations the concerning betweenage, rate,and eventualattainment second language in relationship acquisition: and (1) Adultsproceedthrough earlystagesof syntactic morphological thanchildren faster are (wheretimeand exposure held development constant). thanyounger children (2) Older children acquirefaster (again, in early and wheretimeand stagesof morphological syntactic development are exposure held constant). who begin naturalexposure second languagesduring to (3) Acquirers childhood achievehigher secondlanguageproficiency than generally thosebeginning
Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition Author(s): Stephen D. Krashen, Michael A. Long and Robin C. Scarcella Reviewed work(s): Source: TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 573-582 Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3586451 . Accessed: 09/01/2013 08:48
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TESOL QUARTERLY Vol. 13, No. 4 1979 December
Attainment Second in Age,Rate and Eventual LanguageAcquisition*
MichaelA. Long,and RobinC. Scarcella StephenD. Krashen, This paper presents evidencefor three generalizations the concerning betweenage, rate,and eventualattainment second language in relationship acquisition: and (1) Adultsproceedthrough earlystagesof syntactic morphological thanchildren faster are (wheretimeand exposure held development constant). thanyounger children (2) Older children acquirefaster (again, in early and wheretimeand stagesof morphological syntactic development are exposure held constant). who begin naturalexposure second languagesduring to (3) Acquirers childhood achievehigher secondlanguageproficiency than generally thosebeginning
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