A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE CRITICAL PERIOD RESEARCH

Thomas Scovel

272 citations0/0 files storedAnnual Review of Applied Linguistics

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language Development and Disorders Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Abstract

Two decades of international research in applied linguistics provides a large number and variety of topics from which to choose for this special anniversary edition, but certainly one of the most significant among these choices is the critical period hypothesis (CPH). Few topics in applied linguistics have continued to captivate the interests of researchers and practitioners so intensively and for such a long period of time as the CPH. Indeed, one could easily go back to reviewing three, not two decades of sustained research and continuous interest in this topic (Lenneberg 1967, Scovel 1969). If number and diversity of publications is indicative, the CPH has engendered even more interest and controversy now than in any previous decade. Why is this so?

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 272 citations exist upstream.

References

1996The Study of Second Language Acquisition 1999A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning 1989Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language 2014An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research 2016Second Language Learning and Language Teaching 1992Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition 1987Competence Differences Between Native and Near-Native Speakers 2016The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology

Cited by

2005Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research-Based Approach 2007Transmission and diffusion 2005Changing Contexts and Shifting Paradigms in Pronunciation Teaching 2010The Way They Speak: A Social Psychological Perspective on the Stigma of Nonnative Accents in Communication 2018Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation 2013

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.