Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain...

Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process by which...

second-language acquisition (SLA) is to shed light on how people who already know one language learn a second language. The field of second-language acquisition...

The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported...

Third language acquisition refers to multilinguals learning additional languages. It contrasts with second language acquisition in the narrow sense, which...

Statistical language acquisition, a branch of developmental psycholinguistics, studies the process by which humans develop the ability to perceive, produce...

acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language Acquisition (psychology), learning Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response...

Monitor Theory. According to Krashen, the acquisition of a language is a natural process; whereas learning a language is a conscious one. In the former, the...

first language acquisition and additional language acquisition is that the process of additional language acquisition is influenced by languages that the...

Gestures in language acquisition are a form of non-verbal communication involving movements of the hands, arms, and/or other parts of the body. Children...