... Adults generally need patience and repetition to solidify new language concepts or skills. For myself learning, I enjoy materials that relate to my personal experiences and interests, and also tend to have a lot on my minds and limited time to practice English outside the classroom. Second language acquisition is a theoretical and experimental field of study which, like first language acquisition studies, seeks to understand the phenomenon of language development, in this case the acquisition of second languages. More recently, studies have shown that there are similarities and differences between first and second language learning. Often, our increased knowledge of first language acquisition has served as a backcloth for perceiving and understanding new facts about second language learning. In addition, first language learning is most relevant to child development while second language learning pertains primarily to adult learning, although most general theories of language learning apply to both. While ...

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