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Hypothesis?
There is a period of growth in which full native competence is
possible when acquiring a language.
This period is from early childhood to adolescence.
Acquisition theories say that adults do not acquire languages as well
as children because of external and internal factors, not because of a
lack of ability.
Example:
Older learners rarely achieve a near-native accent. Many people
suggest this is due to them being beyond the critical period.
According to Catherine E. Snow and Marian,
If language input does not occur until after this time, the individual will
never achieve a full command of languageespecially grammatical;
systems.
In second-language acquisition, the strongest empirical evidence for
the critical period hypothesis is in the study of accent, where most
older learners do not reach a native-like level.
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