TYPES OF COMPARISON AND CONTRAST It is very important to recognize the differences that have children and adults in the

language acquisition. It would be really good to learn a second language as successfully as we acquired our first language, but are a lot of things involved in it, as the cognitive, affective and physical way, those influence in learning for both children and adults in a very different way. You can see how a little child acquire his mother tongue (first language acquisition) and how easy is for him or her to understand it even without following rules, and also is easier for them to learn a foreign language (second Language acquisition) without any problem because a child has many advantages due to his or her physical and mental development. Now make the comparison between the advantages that a child has in order to acquire any language and the ones that an adult has. Adults as children have their mother tongue but there is an age in which a person has some troubles in order to acquire an authentic accent or to develop some skills of the language. There are three types of comparison and contrast. The first type is the difference between children who are acquiring their first and second language, both languages are mother tongue for them because they are learning them at the same time and they do not make differences between one and another. The second type operates the differences about second language acquisition between children and adults, and it refers to the differences that they have in order to acquire a second language, and there are some considerations that have to be taken into account like psychomotor, cognitive, affective, linguistic and neurological. Those are very important because childrens learning process is very different to the learning process for adults due to these considerations. The last type is the most common and important part of comparison. It is about childrens first language acquisition and adults second language acquisition. Therefore, it is logical to make out what the differences and similarities of language acquisition process of children and adults based on the last three types. You can compare a little child learning his or her mother tongue by listening and making repetition, in the same way that some adults learn a second language without any previous knowledge about it. In order to compare and contrast first and second language acquisition, we have to know about psychomotor, cognitive, affective, linguistic and neurological considerations, as I mentioned before; those are very important in order to know how the process would be for children and for adults. By comparing and contrasting the acquisition processes of ones first and second language it is clear that despite various differences, one can learn a second language whether young or old, but it is better when a person learn it when is young because his or her accent is going to be better, but if a person star to learn another language when is older his or her accent hardily is going to be the appropriate.

BY: RHINA BENITEZ