Peter Robinson, Individual differences, cognitive abilities, aptitude complexes and learning conditions in second language acquisition, Second Language Research, Vol. 17, No. 4, Special Issue on ...

For decades, the question of age differences in second language acquisition has been hotly debated in the linguistics and educational circles for the answer to this question establishes an important ...

Recent studies on how language learning occurs are beginning to chip away at some long-held notions about second-language acquisition and point to potential learning benefits for students who ...

Brain mechanisms for language acquisition differ between children and adults, and so should learning methods.

Research on the learning process for acquiring two languages from birth found differences in how bilingual babies learned words compared to monolingual babies. The research suggests that bilingual ...

There's a huge difference between learning a language and learning words. Learning words is much more comparable to learning numbers. We do know people who know many, many decimals of the number pi.