Sentence processing in American Sign Language (ASL) was investigated as a function of age of first language acquisition with a timed grammatical judgement task. Participants were 30 adults who were born deaf and first exposed to an fully perceptible language between the ages of birth and 13 years. Stimuli were grammatical and ungrammatical examples of 6 ASL syntactic structures : simple, negati...

This review surveys research on second language vocabulary teaching and learning since1999. It first considers the distinction between incidental and intentional vocabulary learning.Although learners certainly acquire word knowledge incidentally while engaged in variouslanguage learning activities, more direct and systematic study of vocabulary is also required.There is a discussion of how word...

One important issue in current language acquisition research is whether the of a second fundamentally different from that first language. Researchers approaching (SLA) linguistic perspective often relate this to availability Universal Grammar acquisition. The main focus paper examine role and what extent it plays process. To illustrate this, four access hypotheses or theories were given.
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This literature review is aimed at how music affects language acquisition throughout the long term training process or therapy sessions. We discussed, analyzed and summarized several experiment’s results about music’s effects on both physiological(brain, natural system…) psychological side of people in different life stages. found obvious similarity differences their mutual effect. Also, we dev...

Second language (L2) communication strategies (CSs) have traditionally been dealt with through either interactional or psychological perspectives. However, this paper is a critical attempt to question the status of the particular kinds of psycholinguistic and interactional approaches that currently dominate the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In this way, it expands the significance...