There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.
There is a high level of agreement that the following questions (1) ______
have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (2) ______
l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the
same sense one acquires a first language (3) ______
l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) ______
more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have
l What motivates people to acquire additional language
l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) ______
acquisition of additional languages
l What social-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying the
learning of additional languages
From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (6) ______
the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far have
one thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiring
of an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do (7) ______
so. Whether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additional
language, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (8) ______
focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of an
individual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities are
involving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (9) ______
or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in the
classroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (10) ______