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ERIC Number: EJ1081556
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jun
Pages: 6
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Assess the Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition
Du, Lihong
English Language Teaching, v3 n2 p219-224 Jun 2010
The Critical Period Hypothesis aims to investigate the reason for significant difference between first language acquisition and second language acquisition. Over the past few decades, researchers carried out a series of studies to test the validity of the hypothesis. Although there were certain limitations in these studies, most of their results supported the hypothesis.
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