Experts say children can begin learning a second language in preschool, and should begin be- fore the age of ten to take advantage of young children’s natural ability to acquire language. This advantage is lost by the time most children encounter a foreign language in the classroom, in middle school or high school.
Dr, Noble Goss, an assistant professor of Spanish’ and German at Harding University in Arkansas, says, as a father of bilingual (双语的) children (My wife is Mexican), I know that not only it is easy for children m learn one or more languages, but they have an amazing way of separating them out more successfully than you would think.
If a child hears two languages early, he accepts both equally. But if given a chance to speak both, can they be fluent in both
Not everyone agrees that early childhood is the only time to start a language, however. Reeves, the chairman and founder of the Center for Performance Assessment in Denver,
A. children have a special talent to learn a language
B. it will take a very long time to master a language
C. the linguistic ability will be weakened as one grows up
D. children have all amazing way to separate two languages
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