THE ESSENCE OF CRITICAL AGE HYPOTHESIS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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Indira Rakhimova

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Many studies of second language acquisition look at how the first language influences the production of the second, but studies that look at how the acquisition of a second language affects the first are rare. Some scholars argue that the second language cannot be acquired after puberty, while others argue that age isn’t a factor being an obstacle to learn a new language and they assume that people in older ages may be successful as the ones whose minds are fresh (adults). The current paper aims at discovering the age and gender influence of second language acquisitions.

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