Age Contrasts in the Learning of Language-relevant Materials

In order to test the claim of diminished capacity for language learning at puberty, a Hawaiian lesson was given to 182 public school children (61, 73, and 48 from grades 4, 7-8, and 11, respectively). Retention of material was evaluated immediately and after a week. The test was composed of syntactic and semantic tasks each assessed by multiple choice and metalinguistic means, with items demanding either rote memory, word rearrangement, or rule application. Repeated measures analyses of variance of second-week performance covaried for initial scores, showed Grade 4 to be poorer than both older groups, and Grade 7-8 to exceed Grade 11 on some tasks. Stepwise multiple regressions for each group revealed the consistent importance of English reading level and differing additional predictions in the three groups. It was concluded that second-language learning capacities cannot be defined in terms of age alone

Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Period (music) · Reading (process) · Rote learning · Teaching method · Test (biology) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning

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