Weighing the benefits of studying a foreign language at a younger starting age in a minimal input situation

By Jenifer Larson-Hall. 2008

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Contrasting Effects of Starting Age and Input on the Oral Performance of Foreign Language Learners (2014, background): “Larson-Hall (2008) examined 200 Japanese college students who were divided into early starters (who started studying English between ages 3 and 12 years) and had had 1,923 h of exposure to English, and late starters (who started studying English at age 12 or 13 years), with 1,764 h.”
English language education among young learners in East Asia: A review of current research (2004–2014) (2015, background): “…in a phonemic task (Larson-Hall 2008), in listening and reading (Shizuka 2007), and in speaking (Uematsu 2012), but others failed to find positive effects in listening (Takada 2004), in pronunciation (Kajiro 2007), in morphosyntax (Larson-Hall 2008), and in grammar and vocabulary (Shizuka 2007).”
Motivation, Emotion, Learning Experience, and Second Language Comprehensibility Development in Classroom Settings: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study (2018, methodology): “As operationalized in previous EFL studies (Muñoz, 2014; Larson-Hall, 2008; Saito & Hanzawa, 2016), the language backgrounds of the student in our study were surveyed via a structured experience questionnaire—termed here as EFL Experience Questionnaire (see Supporting Information-B).”
Age Effects in Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones Toward Better Understanding (2013, background): “For parents, administrators, and educational authorities, the answer to these questions determines how they will invest their children’s time and their education budgets (Curtain, 1998; Garcı́a Mayo & Garcı́a Lecumberri, 2003; Larson-Hall, 2008).”