Second language acquisition in children and adolescents

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Second language acquisition in children and
adolescents

• Danella Zuzunaga

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When do we teach our children a second language?
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Side one

• Teach them a second language while they still
  very young!!!!

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• Why?

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Side one strengths ?

• Because children may never acquire a second
  language
• Modifying speech
• Self-corrections
• creative invention of language

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Side one weaknesses ?

• Children do seem to forget
• Replacement
• Labels

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Side two

• Teach them when they reach puberty!!!

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• Why?

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Side two strengths ?

• They already know one language
• intentional learning
• cognitive maturity

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Side Two weaknesses ?

• Accent ?
• challenging tasks
• Finding boundaries between significant
  phonological units
• pulling out and distinguishing individual words
• Formal teaching?

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Im so confused!
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Methodology

• Three individuals for each side
• Group which makes less errors is the winner
• Phonetics and syntax

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So, what happened?Who is the winner?
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• Nobody

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What happened?

• Both groups struggled
• Picking up the words
• Foreign accent

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Conclusion

• Never too old to learn a language.

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Future Work

• Maximize the group size
• Do it only by one field of Linguistics
• Mom at home, dad outside