I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
“Imagine you live on a planet where the dominant species is far more intellectually sophisticated than human beings but often keeps humans… — Jean Donaldson Copy Share Image
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is unnecessary, he added, to pressure students to produce speech or writing in the second language before they are ready, because… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather's kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. 'Would… — Dan Rhodes Copy Share Image
“...the opacity of a numeration system takes an important toll on language acquisition.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“Third, the Comprehension Hypothesis, on which Krashen’s concept of sheltering is based, holds that input is what matters in second language acquisition—not… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“educators of English learners should be well-versed in theories of second language acquisition and in methodologies such as sheltering and scaffolding. Their… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Thus three conclusions emerge from the eye story: (1) it is easier to inherit a ‘vision acquisition device’ than a full-blown hard-wired… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“According to an extensive study comparing identical twins to fraternal twins, headed by University of New Mexico’s Dr. Philip Dale, only 25%… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
“the Comprehension Hypothesis,12 elaborated by Stephen Krashen in the early 1980s. It holds that one factor above all is responsible for second… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“Almost all instruction seems to revolve around language ac-(Jermaine spelling now) "q, a-kwi-si-tion acquisition!" ("What that?" I ask. "You know, to get.… — Sapphire Copy Share Image
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
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