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Peer reviewedKennedy, Barbara L. – Language Learning, 1988
Assumes that adult second language learners cannot achieve the same degree of proficiency in a second language as children learning a second language. An information-processing approach is presented, and the aspects of utilization, faulty or incomplete declarative knowledge, and limited working memory space are used to account for deficiencies in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Child Language, Language Processing
