How the frequency of language exposure and social integrity influence a children's language acquisition abilities

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 14 University of Hamburg (IAA) course: Second And Third Language Acquisition language: English abstract: The purpose of this term paper is to analyze the influences that the frequencies of language exposures and usage have on learners of a language. The analysis draws upon several theories mentioned in Nick Ellis's Frequency-based accounts of second language acquisition and a Longitudinal Study of Lexical Development in Children Learning Vietnamese and English by Giang Pham and Kathryn Kohnert who tested the language acquisition abilities of Vietnamese-American children that learned Vietnamese as a first language and English as a second language.