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AGE AND THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Georgette Ioup
Georgette Ioup
Affiliation:
University of New Orleans
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AGE AND THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. María del Pilar García Mayo and María Luisa García Lecumberri (Eds.). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2003. Pp. xii + 209. $29.95 paper.

There have been a number of recent books devoted to the effects of age on language acquisition; this volume is different. It is the first book to examine the relationship of age to ultimate attainment in foreign language learning. One might wonder whether there is, in fact, any relationship between the age of onset and ultimate attainment in classroom learning where the language being taught is not spoken within the community. However, if one exists, then what is the optimal age to begin foreign language instruction?

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 641 - 642
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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