Language Acquisition

Learning a new language can be tricky and difficult. Learning to make new sounds with your mouth, reading different sentence structures and realizing that some languages can´t translate particular words, can be very taxing. However, if you understand HOW the brain learns and acquires language, you can better understand your own process for acquiring this new language.

Below is an article to read about how we learn language and the different stages we go through to produce and understand language. Read the article and then answer the questions below.

Stages of Language Acquisition article.pdf

Questions:

1. What stage are you in?
2. How do you feel about where you are at in your language process?
3. How can identifying your stage, help you better understand where you are in your language acquisition?