Age-related Factors Influencing Second Language Acquisition

作者:Song Jielin
来源:5th International Symposium on Education Management and Knowledge Innovation Engineering, 2012-04-20 to 2012-04-22.

摘要

A number of factors may help to understand why language learners seem to have varying degrees of success at different age levels. This paper mainly focuses on the age-related factors accounting for differences in Second Language Acquisition from five aspects: Cognitive development, affective factors, social-psychological factors, biological or neurological factors, language input. At the same time, we should be cautious about generalizations of the relationship between age and language acquisition.