Sentence examples for younger language from inspiring English sources

It turns out that there really is nothing holding us back after 50- there is no critical period for second-language learning, "no biologically determined constraint on language-learning capacity that emerges at a particular age, nor any maturational process which requires that older language learners function differently than younger language learners". .

The group effect was accounted for by differences in the distribution of the N400 in the younger language controls, where we recorded the maximal negativity in the right hemisphere (Figure 4b).

Khelsilem, 26, a Vancouver-based indigenous artist and educator, is among the young language revitalization activists trying to keep his own Squamish language from dying out.

Some time over this period, Gergiev met a pretty young language teacher from the Leningrad conservatory named Lena Ostovich, who was to become the mother of his daughter.

"Kids and Yiddish: The Mishegas Continues," on Nov. 6 at 2 30 p.m., has the answers for even the youngest language students.

Both of these projects aim to use Latin to support literacy in primary schools and to create young "language learners", who acquire an awareness of how languages (both English and many others) are structured, as well as an understanding of their grammar and the derivation of so much of their vocabulary.

In brief, for young language learners, it is preferable for teachers to more closely follow the child's lead, limiting extensions of the child's language by using indirect and less complex language stimulation techniques more closely matched to the child's early language level (Tsybina et al. 2006).

Not only do older students have more trouble learning new languages than younger children, but they have less time to make up what they have missed.

On Mr. Mahanthappa's "Summit," which used harmony from South Indian classical music, and "Playing With Stones," which had a 22-beat rhythm cycle, the elder quickly adapted to the younger's language.

He brought wit and beauty to English poetry and thereby gave his successors not just a model but pride and confidence in their young literary language.

Additional research that can better overcome these limitations is definitely needed, particularly in test-intensive EFL contexts involving young adolescent language learners.