Modified input shows that teachers who talk clearly to the children are able to improve a child’s second language as they focus on the form of the language and correction. (O’Grady et al. 2010, Ch.11 P.418-421) When comparing a child and an adult in a room together for several months research showed that children seem to master pronunciation skills and vocabulary much better than adults. Children always have former approaches that stimulus their learning, they give a response and reinforcement is given back to them where as an adult learns on his own and creates his own learning skills and may not always have back up information if he is incorrect when it comes to pronunciation. Linguistic research believes that “children acquire language through application of innate and universal …show more content…
Factors like age, time, differences and learning skills where able to show that children have the capability to learn at such an ease where as adults can’t. Children are in their early years of learning and learning the proper way. Their main goal as a child is to learn everyday which is what allows them to quickly gain a second language. On the other hand, adults have more tasks and are daily occupied with work, which gives them little to no time to be learning a second