When children learn another language after having acquired their first language or languages, they go through different stages that can vary from child to child and depend of how similar the additional language is to those the children already know. This infographic shows 5 stages that 3 to 8 year olds can go through when […]
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10 Stages of Bilingual Language Development
“Becoming bilingual, whether from birth of soon after, or subsequently in early childhood prior to schooling, entails a complex interaction between what children bring to the learning task, that is, among others, speech segmentation skills, speed of processing, and the linguistic and cultural environments in which they grow up” (Ludovica Serratrice, Becoming Bilingual in Early […]
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Language acquisition versus language learning
What is the difference between language acquisition and language learning. Some people use the term of language acquisition for all the phases that lead to language fluency, including learning to read and write. Others use the term of language learning even for babies and very young, pre-school children. – But there is a […]
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Can adults acquire a language the same way as children?
Have you ever wondered why most of the language lessons for adults are based on learning grammar? Couldn’t adults learn (or acquire) a language in a more natural way, like children? When adults learn a new language, they usually try to find their way through a myriad of grammar rules and patterns because most of […]
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