Language and the brain, learning processes, differences in learners, the effects of multilingualism.

2. Child Adults
Strong accent X -
Plasticity X but is not enough to acquire the
L2
-
Learning capacity - X it is important for acquiring the L2
Ability to understand grammatical rules - X
Knowledge of L1 that allow complexity
in tasks
- X
Inhibit, native. Like grammatical
intuitions
X -

3. Women Men
Test of verbal fluency ♀ --
Speech -- ♂
Memorizing ♀ ---
Computing compositional
rules
--- ♂

4. Aptitude tests
Phonemic coding ability Ability to learn and restore different phonemes and
morphemes. It begins in the early age.
Inductive language learning
ability
It is linked with central processing as Grammatical
sensitivity.
Grammatical sensitivity Ability to recognize functions and rules of
grammatical.
Associative memory capacity It all about how memory restore linguistic forms.

7. Personality
Anxiety Anxiety is an important factor in SLA and goes with lower levels
of success, it has to deal with the self confidence.
Introverts Better in school
Extroverts Talk more

8. Not all the strategies are the same, some work better
than others but the ones that are the best of teaching
a language are:
Metacognitive Regulate the language by planning
and monitoring
Cognitive Synthesis of linguistic material.
Social/affective Interaction
Factors that influence learning strategies
Age Young (repetition)Adults(synthesis)
Sex Females use social/affective
strategies than man