According to the passage, young children learn language quickly for all of the following reasons EXCEPT _______.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 40

In the exploration of the linguistic life cycle, it is apparent that it is much more difficult to learn a second language in adulthood than a first language in childhood. Most adults never completely master a foreign language, especially in phonology – hence the ubiquitous foreign accent. Their development often “fossilizes” into permanent error patterns that no teaching or correction can undo. Of course, there are great individual differences, which depend on effort, attitudes, amount of exposure, quality of teaching, and plain talent, but there seems to be a cap for the best adults in the best circumstances.

Many explanations have been advanced for children’s superiority: they exploit Motherese (the simplified, repetitive conversation between parents and children), make errors unselfconsciously, are more motivated to communicate, like to conform, are not set in their ways, and have no first language to interfere. But some of these accounts are unlikely, based on what is known about how language acquisition works. Recent evidence is calling these social and motivation explanations into doubt. Holding every other factor constant, a key factor stands out: sheer age.

Systematic evidence comes from the psychologist Elissa Newport and her colleagues. They tested Korean and Chinese-born students at the University of Illinois who had spent at least ten years in the United States. The immigrants were given a list of 276 simple English sentences, half of them containing some grammatical errors. The immigrants who came to the United States between the ages of 3 and 7 performed identically to American-born students. Those who arrived between the ages of 8 and 15 did worse the later they arrived, and those who arrived between 17 and 39 did the worst of all, and showed huge variability unrelated to the age of arrival.

Câu 364798: According to the passage, young children learn language quickly for all of the following reasons EXCEPT _______.

A. they make many mistakes

B. they want to talk

C. their approach is flexible

D. they frequently repeat words

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Theo đoạn văn, trẻ nhỏ học ngôn ngữ một cách nhanh chóng vì tất cả các lý do sau NGOẠI TRỪ _______.

A. chúng mắc nhiều lỗi

B. chúng muốn nói chuyện

C. cách tiếp cận của chúng linh hoạt

D. chúng thường xuyên lặp lại từ

Thông tin: Many explanations have been advanced for children’s superiority: they exploit Motherese (the simplified, repetitive conversation between parents and children), make errors unselfconsciously, are more motivated to communicate, like to conform, are not set in their ways, and have no first language to interfere.

Tạm dịch: Nhiều lời giải thích đã được nâng cao cho sự ưu việt của trẻ em: họ khai thác Motherese (cuộc trò chuyện đơn giản, lặp đi lặp lại giữa cha mẹ và con cái), mắc lỗi một cách vô thức, có động lực hơn để giao tiếp, thích tuân thủ, không được đặt theo cách của họ và không có ngôn ngữ đầu tiên can thiệp.

Chọn A

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