1. Kids can start learning a second language at a young age. 2. Most of the students learned English as their second language. 3. The first is in regard to numbers and the second concerns language. 4. The present generation of young people is acutely aware of the need for a second language. 5. Theory and Practice in adult second language teaching Several more generic issues emerge, however. 6. For the majority of Tanzanians, Swahili is their second language. 7. Students are expected to master a second language. 8. Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages, two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language. 9. For most speakers of Creole, Creole is actually a second language or variety. 10. The leap from competence scores to acquisitional hierarchy -- in the meantime having identified speakers of Patois as second language learners -- seems unjustified. |