First Language Acquisition
- Learned at home
- Learned by infants and toddlers
- Learned in order to communicate
- No time pressure to learn
- Largely an unconcious process
- Must learn developmental concepts as well
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Second Language Acquisition
- Learned at school
- Learned by individuals of all ages
- Learned for school purposes
- Pressure to learn both language and content
- Partly acquired and partly learned
- Older children already have a lot of language knowledge to build on and transfer to their new language
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