THE CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS FOR LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Keywords:
CPH, L2 acquisition, Maturity level, Auditory discriminationAbstract
The present case study aimed to find out the answer for the most debatable discussion on Critical hypothesis in language development. Although the CPH has been investigated by many researchers, the issue of age has not been settled (Scovel, 1988). This is mostly because the issue is more complex so that it involves other factors as well (Nunan, 1999). Therefore, although results give important insights about adult and child differences in learning a language, contextual, educational, and affective factors are vital to re-consider the results of CPH studies for EFL contexts
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