Why Can It Be So Difficult to Learn a Second

Multiple Choice

Why can it be so difficult to learn a second language as an adult?

A) The attention span of infants and children is better geared toward learning a language"
B) Adults have lost the ability to discriminate between phonemes that are not used in their native language"
C) Adults are unable to form new connections in the language regions of the brain"
D) All of the above"