How the frequency of language exposure and social integrity influence a children's language acquisition abilities

· GRIN Verlag
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Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,4, University of Hamburg (IAA), course: Second And Third Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this term paper is to analyze the influences that the frequencies of language exposures and usage have on learners of a language. The analysis draws upon several theories, mentioned in Nick Ellis's “Frequency-based accounts of second language acquisition” and a “Longitudinal Study of Lexical Development in Children Learning Vietnamese and English” by Giang Pham and Kathryn Kohnert, who tested the language acquisition abilities of Vietnamese-American children that learned Vietnamese as a first language and English as a second language.

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