1. Second language acquisition in children and adolescents
Danella Zuzunaga

2. When do we teach our children a second language?

3. Side one
Teach them a second language while they still very young!!!!

4. Why?

5. Side one: strengths 
Because children may never acquire a second language …
Modifying speech
Self-corrections
creative invention of language

6. Side one: weaknesses 
Children do seem to forget
Replacement
Labels

7. Side two
Teach them when they reach puberty!!!

8. Why?

9. Side two: strengths  They already know one language
intentional learning
cognitive maturity

10. Side Two: weaknesses  Accent  challenging tasks: Formal teaching?
Finding boundaries between significant phonological units
pulling out and distinguishing individual words
Formal teaching?

11. I’m so confused!

12. Methodology Three individuals for each side
Group which makes less errors is the winner
Phonetics and syntax

13. So, what happened? Who is the winner?

14. Nobody

15. What happened? Both groups struggled Picking up the words
Foreign accent

16. Conclusion
Never too old to learn a language.

17. Future Work Maximize the group size
Do it only by one field of Linguistics
Mom at home, dad outside