Assess the Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition

Lihong Du

English Language Teaching, 2010, vol. 3, issue 2, 219

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2010
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