Children learning a second language are more likely to achieve native-like fluency than adults, but in general, it is very rare for someone speaking a second language to pass completely for a native speaker.
Mackey questioned whether the Chinese adoptees could get closer to native-like fluency and suggested that follow-up studies could examine the "cognitive benefits" from this early exposure.
Just like the more I studied a language the more I realized native-like fluency is an admirable goal but probably impossible, the more I advance in the completion of my degree requirements, the better I see how engineering is not aiming for perfection but constant improvement.
Many language teachers still view themselves as helping their learners achieve native-like fluency, teaching "standard" English, etc.
The expressed products possess native-like properties.
Results revealed that apoNgb formed a folding intermediate known as molten globule, which possessed native-like secondary structure and lost its tertiary structure significantly at pH 2.0.
Based on these results, we sought to determine whether the truncated gp91phox proteins could be expressed under a soluble form, as this form is usually considered to possess a "native-like" conformation.
This may be due to some proteins being synthesized in the early stage that facilitated the correct folding of the mda-7/IL-24 protherebyhereby allowing the IBs to possess a greater proportion of native-like secondary structure [32].
Low priority is given to applicants for dissertation research abroad and to applicants who already possess native fluency in the target language.
Low priority is given to applicants for research abroad and to applicants who already possess native fluency in the target language.
Therefore, in contrast to most other Central American countries, El Salvador no longer possessed an ethnically or linguistically distinct Native American population, although persons of native-like ethnicity or cultural heritage still lived in the western parts of the country.
