All roads lead to exposure: Identifying a pathway to encouraging second-language uptake

Abstract

- Hispanic communities provide a lifeline for Spanish-speaking immigrants to the US. However, learning English is their passport to full integration. - Dr Amelia Lambelet at the HEP VD, Switzerland, and Dr Virginia Valian at the City University of New York are interested why children learn English more efficiently than their parents. - The team studied a group of recent immigrant parent-child families, and what they found challenges traditional beliefs about the limitations imposed by age on learning a new language