The Critical Period Hypothesis: A Coat of Many Colours

Autor/in	Singleton, David
Titel	The Critical Period Hypothesis: A Coat of Many Colours
Quelle	In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 43 (2005) 4, S.269-285 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0019-042X
DOI	10.1515/iral.2005.43.4.269
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Second Language Learning; Linguistic Theory; Developmental Stages; Second Language Instruction; Persuasive Discourse + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Linguistische Theorie; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation
Abstract	Research on age-related effects in L2 development often invokes the idea of a critical period--the postulation of which is customarily referred to as the Critical Period Hypothesis. This paper argues that to speak in terms of the Critical Period Hypothesis is misleading, since there is a vast amount of variation in the way in which the critical period for language acquisition is understood--affecting all the parameters deemed to be theoretically significant and indeed also relating to the ways in which the purported critical period is interpreted in terms of its implications for L2 instruction. The paper concludes that the very fact that there are such diverse and competing versions of the Critical Period Hypothesis of itself undermines its plausibility. (Author).
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