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Learning a language
Linguists are interested in the abilities that people have to learn language and are trying
to solve the problem of how to learn a language more easily. Linguists are doing research
on this issue in two ways:
Ⅰ. understand how children learn to speak and understand(1)______language; (1)______
Linguists cannot agree on it for the time being.
Group 1: children are born with the(2)______to learn a language; (2)______
Group 2: children learn to use a language from their(3)______; (3)______
If we knew how(4)______learn their native language, we would have an (4)______
easy way to teach adults.
Ⅱ. learn how people learn a second language.
Two main approaches to teaching adults a foreign language:
1. learn a second language the(5)______. way children learn native language (5)______
--teachers speak only the foreign language in the(6)______ (6)______
--(7)______the student to as much of the spoken language as possible. (7)______
--not teach rules for(8)______ (8)______
2.(9)______method: (9)______
--teach the students the rules of a foreign language.
Many teachers will try(10)______ways of teaching to help the students (10)______
learn the language quickly and easily.