Influence of Starting Age on Second Language Acquisition

Abstract

Individual differences are believed to be in close connection with second language acquisition (SLA). In this paper, the key age hypothesis is used to review and analyze the learner's starting age, and the learning characteristics and learning conditions of the second language learners of young children, adolescents and adults are studied through comparative analysis. The results show that starting age not only affects the efficiency of second language acquisition, but also affects the proficiency of second language acquisition. Learners at different ages maintain different advantages according to contrastive analysis. Best starting age for SLA is essential to be speculated carefully about the goals of instructional programs and contexts before concluding about necessity of the earliest possible start.

The Impact of The Language Transfer in Different Age Ranges

“…Deng &Wang mainly talks about how adult L2 learners are hard to acquire verb separation including separation patterns that are complex and numerous [13]. According to the authors Deng &Wang (2019), the decomposition and oral production in Chinese verb separation are challenges for Adult L2 learners [13].…”

“…Deng &Wang mainly talks about how adult L2 learners are hard to acquire verb separation including separation patterns that are complex and numerous [13]. According to the authors Deng &Wang (2019), the decomposition and oral production in Chinese verb separation are challenges for Adult L2 learners [13]. The authors involved 28 Chinese learners of a second language in a study that included three tasks: verb decomposition, grammatical judgment, and oral translation.…”

“…There are similarities between the articles (Pasquarella, et al, 2011) and (Deng &Wang, 2019) in that the authors examine the grammar and vocabulary of language transfer for English as a second language learner and the difference is authors selected different age groups for their study [6,13]. For the findings of these two studies on language transfer, the authors did not demonstrate whether there was a direct effect of language transfer and age ranges.…”

“…Some authors Deng &Wang, (2019) and Xu, (2022) have mentioned the language transfer of adults in writing and oral aspects. However, it was found that there was no direct effect between age and language transfer [11,13]…”