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With reference to second language acquisition theories and your own experience as a language learner, discuss how adults acquire a new language
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The Title is: "with reference to second language acquisition theories and your own experience as a language learner, discuss how adults acquire a new language." All human beings can acquire additional languages, but they must have the desire or the need to acquire the language and the opportunity to use the language they study for real communicative purposes. In this essay, I will try to discuss second language acquisition theories: compare and contrast L1 and L2 acquisition, introduce some key points, such as internal factors which include innatism/universal grammar, internal theories, to be specific,I will discuss them in Krashen's acquisition, monitor, input, affective filter ways. Additional, as a language learner I will describe my own beliefs about language leaning. First of all, research on language acquisition can be divided into first and second language learning settings. Language is not a mental phenomenon, it is behaviour. Like other forms of human behavour,...
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