Abstract
<p><em>There are so many factors which affect the learners when learning second language. Age, motivation of the learners, the ability to acquire language, cognitive development as the factors affect learning second language. When learners start at a young age the other factors are affected positively. The researcher aimed to search the importance of age when learning foreign language. She made a questionnaire with 52 volunteers; 26 of them are students at Foreign Language Department in Uludag University, 26 of them are parents. And she also interviewed with teachers. She carried out this study by collecting the qualitative and quantitative data. The research has shown that </em><em>“</em><em>Age</em><em>”</em><em> is important factor when learning second language. Person who learned second language at a young age has a lot of advantages in long term. The researcher chose this subject because she thought that learning second language at a young age is easier inasmuch as language acquisition is available. She wanted to learn thoughts of parents, students in Foreign Language Departments, teachers. She revealed the thought of </em><em>“</em><em>the younger the better</em><em>”</em><em> by making interview with teachers and making a questionnaire with parents and students in Foreign Language Departments. The researcher corroborate her theory by looking at these results.</em></p>
Highlights
Second language acquisition is concerned with the study of the way in which an individual becomes able to use one or more language different from his first language
I made a questionnaire with different age groups; with students who study at foreign language department, and with parents
Elena Nicoladis says that the differences are that the children knowing second language achieve higher scores than the children knowing only their mother tongue on a number of tests of cognitive ability, including mental flexibility, non-verbal problem-solving tasks, understanding the conventional origin of names, distinguishing between semantic similarity and phonetic similarity and capacity to judge the grammaticality of sentences
Summary
Second language acquisition is concerned with the study of the way in which an individual becomes able to use one or more language different from his first language. Learners are affected by many factors while learning foreign language. A further instance of these are age, motivation of the learners, the ability to acquire language, and cognitive development. These factors have a relationship among them while the learners are learning foreign language. Results in higher achievement test scores in reading and math” (Stewart, 2005). With this article I try to show the importance of learning foreign language at a young age. I reveal with this article that second language learning at a young age is important
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