The Debate Over The Ultimate Causes Of Age Related Phenomenon

Foreign language classes are often put off until high school due to the fact that this is when people believe students are most ready to learn another language. This belief is widely accepted despite the fact children are able to learn to speak like natives in foreign languages, whereas teenagers and adults usually are not able to learn how to do this. Speaking “like a native” entails being able to think in a foreign language without having to translate (Nadia 1). The ability to speak like a native in a foreign language can be easier to obtain when taught the foreign language during elementary school. Once a student passes the prime learning stages, learning a foreign language can be extremely difficult. Adults starting to learn a language have to work through an established first-language

Many kids in today’s world are not learning enough to be able to live in the global economy and according to David Boren, the former U.S. Senator, “Not training our kids to be able to work and live in an international environment is like leaving them illiterate” (182). The best way to learn a culture is to study the language and devote time where the language is important. Learning a foreign language rises, brain growth, yet fewer American schools offer it. To

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) report that “the language areas of the brain seem to go through the most dynamic period of growth between the ages of 6 and 13” (qtd. in Talukder 3). The UCLA study instead suggests that “the elementary and middle school years are the biologically most advantageous times for acquisition of a second language” (qtd. in Talukder 3). It is during the first years of life that “the foundations for thinking, language, vision, attitudes, aptitudes, and other characteristics are laid down," says Ronald Kotulak, author of Inside the Brain (qtd. in Dryden and Voss 266). Studies of the brain show that a second language is stored in the same part of the brain as a first language when learned by age 8. After that age, a second language is stored in a different part of the brain.

One aspect of growth that I found important during older development is the growth of the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is made up of four lobes, the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe, which are associated with higher brain function such as thought and action. It is also the last part of the brain to stop growing, making it sensitive to environmental influences for a longer period of time. Because of this developmental stage it is important that the infant has high levels of interaction so that it can develop in a healthy way. I found that language activity being very active during preschool years as interesting. If more schools offered programs that would expose toddlers to other languages there would be easier to have a second language (Berk, 2014). This is a very important time of a child’s life because it is when the child’s brain is most plastic. Parents, educators, and physicians should use this information optimize left-hemispheric development.

April 6th 1944 in her home in Jacksonville, IL Mary Lee Elizabeth Smith was born. This is my grandma. At 71 years old she is the youngest of 8 children. She herself had 6 kids before having a tubal ligation at the age of 27, which resulted in two adhesions that had wrapped around her colon. Other surgical procedures include getting her tonsils out at sixteen years old, the removal of a benign “knot” from her neck, a cyst removal from under her arm and bunion removal. She currently lives with congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis.

As people age over time, they have a way of changing both psychological and biological. These changes affect everyone in different ways and the changes that can take place over the years can vary from individual to individual. “For the human brain, there's no such thing as over the hill. Psychologists researching the normal changes of aging have found that although some aspects of memory and processing change as people get older, simple behavior changes can help people stay sharp for as long as possible. Although researchers are still piecing together what happens in a healthy aging brain, they can explain some typical changes” (Memory Changes in Older Adults, 2006).

Aging process will lead to decline of biological functions and the ability to adapt to metabolic stress. Since the percentage of mortality increases rapidly with aging, it is clear that all of the body systems will changes in the individual which make him or her more vulnerable to disease. Among the systems that get affected by aging process are endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and reproductive

The biological theory of aging is connecting the process that caused organism to develop by a process of evolution. It is belonging to the essential nature of aging such as decreases body function like lung capacity or loss of brain cells. These could lead people to become lower in physical function including putting the person’s life at dangerous illness and makes easier to death. The error theory is the cause of aging in the normal function of the body which is staying over time. Moreover, these biological and error theories are related both two main categories and those theories might interact with each other in complicate way. Because programmed and error theories had been proposed to describe the process of aging, but none of them appears

Why do people age? Over the “ages” people have wondered how do we age? Do our genes determine our lifespan? Does damage to our DNA affect how long we live? There have been many theories answering that one question and few are right and some still have to be proven. People aging isn’t magical, aging is scientific. Chemistry is behind aging.

Aging is a process that all people alive are constantly going through everyday and every year. From the reading “Aging occurs within a social context: one’s social class, education, occupation, gender, and race will determine how one experiences adolescence or old age.” In the United States until a person reaches the age eighteen years old they are considered, to be in school and, are still seen as being a child, and until after high school graduation or eighteen they can bee seen as a man, woman, or adult. In different cultures a child can be considered a man or woman at a younger age. The examples I know off the top of my head are Quinceañera’s and Bar Mitzvahs. Bar Mitzvah’s are used in the Jewish culture and are seen as when a boy turns

In the past, child development from birth to adulthood had been overlooked. Generally, children were viewed simply as little versions of adults and not much attention was given to understand and research on physical growth and development of cognitive abilities and development of languages skills and abilities which happen as a child in childhood to an

The earlier purchase of the second language and adeptness, increases the volume of grey matter which provides a balance between the two languages. However, the benefits of bilingualism isn’t limited to people born bilingual, but also the ones who gain it later in life. Bilinguals excel monolinguals in an improved metalinguistic alertness, memory and creativity. Dr. Mercola deduces that some researchers claim that adults may be better at learning a new language than children. Where, adults have more developed skills and knowledge as compared to children. Children excel in obtaining a similar accent of the new language without the influence of their native language like adults. However, the accent doesn’t affect the fluency and communication skills where adults outdo children in; due to the greater knowledge. She then suggests that it’s never too late to learn a new language, and to obtain the best skills you should engage yourself in a class rather than learning it by yourself. Mercola enumerates other activates that can lift your mental health and

Many studies show that kids who are taught a language by the age of 7 they begin to be fluent in that language. Why? Because if kids hear it long enough they will start remembering it. According to the text it says, “A 2007 in Harwich, Massachusetts showed that students who studied a foreign language in an Articulated Sequence outperformed their non-foreign language learning peers on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test after two-three years and significantly outperformed them after seven-eight years on all MCAS subtests”(Caccavale). Even many teachers would say that learning a second language would take time off of basic learning such as Math and Language Arts it doesn’t really. Many kids are learning many of the basic learning skills in foreign language classes. The fact is that many teachers need to stop babbling about how foreign language is not going to help you on state standardized tests. Because it will. Evidence shows that, “Every piece of research in the field points to the benefits of starting a second language as early as three years of age. The other key to becoming proficient in another language is a long, continuous contact with the language. Until we have a well-articulated PK-16 second language ‘buy in’ from legislators, school boards, administrators, and parents, the U.S will continue to lag behind other nations, thus prolonging monolingualism”(Stewart). The notion of earlier is better in language learning seems to be upheld by the fact that longer sequences of foreign language instruction seem to lead to better academic achievement, overall. Because second language instruction provides young children with cognitive flexibility and creative thinking skills, it can offer gifted students the intellectual and developmental challenges they need and

Are children better language learners? Discuss the age factor in second language learning and consider more recent research which sees age not in absolute terms, but in relation to other aspects of language learning.

Language is a key part of any family, community, culture and the human race. Without language the world today would be much different. From cavemen, to the Egyptian use of hieroglyphics, to Old English, to more than 6,500 languages spoken around the world today, the advances that humans have made in language is remarkable and inspiring. The ability to speak, read, write and understand more than one language is also remarkable and expands the liberties in life, especially for young people. High school students should be required to take at least two years of a foreign language class in order to graduate, as many recent studies support the benefits of doing so. Students who have learned a foreign language in high school have proven to have a