Buxoro davlat universiteti xorijiy tillar fakulteti "tasdiqlayman"

Task 3. Answer the following questions. 
1.
 
Why do language environments play an important role when language 
learners start foreign language acquisition?
2.
 
What is the proposed argument by Krashen et al. about different 
perspectives and question whether young learners are better in second language 
learning than older learners? 
3.
 
What is critical period used to refer to? 
4.
 
Explain the critical period hypothesis. 
5.
 
Why childhood is the superior period to acquire second language? 

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6.
 
Do you agree with the following idea? Young learner will get the native 
accent when they are exposed to the foreign or second language at the early age. 
Support your views.
7.
 
Which evidences does Herschensohn present from late LIA and L2A 
researches?
8.
 
In which areas do children do some better performance than adults? 
9.
 
Which view denies the critical period hypothesis? Do you agree with it? 
10.
 
 What are the age-related factors? 
 
Task 4. Match the following ideas with the authors. 
AUTHORS 
IDEAS 
A.
Coppieters , Scovel, 
Johnson and Newport
B.
Penfield and 
Roberts
C.
Ellis
D.
Lenneberg
E.
Krashen
F.
Lamendella 
G.
Morford and 
Mayberry 
H.
Ekstrand 
I.
Snow and Hoefnagel-
Hohle 
J.
Singleton and Ryan 
1.
critical period is used to refer to the general phenomenon 
of declining competence over increasing age of exposure. 
2.
held the view that the earlier the children learn second 
language, the easier it seems to be. 
3.
used the term “lateralization” to express that puberty 
means a period of time when the localization of language-
processing ability in the human’s left hemisphere was 
connected with human’s biological change/development.
4.
observes that there is the period when language 
acquisition can take place naturally and efficiently, but after 
a certain age the brain is no longer able to process language 
in this way.
5.
argued that period was too much exaggerated and he used 
the term “sensitive period” for “lateralization”, which states 
that the possibility of learning a language well may also 
occur after 5 years old. 
6.
proposed that human’s brain lateralization can be finished 
in the age of five 
7.
note “individuals exposed to language at earlier ages 
consistently outperform individuals exposed to language at 
earlier ages for first and second languages of both signed and 
spoken languages”. 
8.
supports the view that most children were ultimately more 
successful than adults in SLA but they were not always 
faster. 
9.
reveals that L2 learning ability ‘improves with age’. 
10.
addressed greater success for young learners on 
phonetic/ phonological performance. 

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