なぜ子供は簡単に外国語を身に着けるのか
② Children may be better learner of a new language than adults for several reasons.
Kids’ brains are more flexible and can adapt and respond new information.
“Every kind of learning has many things to do with changes of brain, and kid’s brain is far familiar with these changes.”
In fact, they enjoy trying to something new.
Adults have the fundamental knowledges of rules and grammar of mother tongue while kids reset almost all the information they have and restart the lesson from the scratch.
These insights will disappoint us, but for scientists, significant term for language learning seems longer is good news.
The window for foreign language begins narrower when kids are born, but other windows will become wider to adolescence.
The scientists think that 17-8 years old (when the ability of learning another language) can be considered ‘later’ stage of life compared with other skills and abilities.
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