This document discusses differences in language acquisition between young and old learners. Young people have brain plasticity and are less inhibited, while older learners understand grammatical rules better and have better memory and analytical abilities. Each group has different advantages. Gender also influences language learning - women typically have better verbal fluency and memory, while men are better at computing grammatical rules. Individual factors like motivation, personality, and learning strategies also impact how well someone acquires a new language.

1. Language Acquisition
Differences in learners
Jaqueline Recalde

2. There are several advantages for young
and old people.
OLD PEOPLE: understand better the
grammatical rules, better memory, analitic
ability, knows better the L1
YOUNG PEOPLE: have brain plasticity,
are less inhibited, grammatical intuitions

3. Each one has a different advantages
Women; use to be better than men in
verbal fluency, have a better memory
Men; are better at computing
compositional rules

4. Phonemic coding ability; ability to save
important information and use it when it is
necessary.
Inductive language-learning ability and
grammatical sensitivity: it is the central
process; here the grammatical structure
take a form and we can recognize patterns

5. Associative memory capacity; it is for can
give a good use to the information that we
have saved in our memory
We have to remember that:
Talent is not a requirement for success in
L2 learning.

6. Individual motivation is important.
The types of motivation that we have are:
integrative and instrumental.
 Integrative motivation: the wish that we
have to learning a new language and have
a better relationship with other people.
Instrumental motivation; it is for improve
our professional life, or have more power.

7. It is the best way that a person process
information
It has a connection with: personality
factors and learning strategies
It could be significant when we explain
results of learning.

8. Introvert use to be better at school, but
extroverts talk more.
When we are talking about personality the
results in the learning process can be
different.
Some aspects that are useful are be
creative, empathetic and tolerant.

9. Student use to choose one
All the items are included in the learning
strategies.
The strategies used are:
Metacognitive (planning and monitoring)
 Cognitive(use of direct analysis or
synthesis of linguistic material)
Social/affective(involve Interaction with
others)