Some language learners find difficult to succeed in other fields of science.

Krashen believes that adults are better language learners, while children are better language acquirers.（）

The main objective of mechanical practice is to help learners to absorb thoroughly the＿＿of a language item.

Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circles overlapping in some parts. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other， we may regard thought as “subvocal speech，” and speech as “（）”.

Ireland gave the world some of the greatest writers in the English language,including Jonathan Swift,Oliver Goldsmith,and（）.

A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.

A task is an activity which requires learners to use language, with emphasis on ______ , to attain an objective.

Doing lots of listening practice is one of _______ best ways of becoming _______ good language learner.

Learners use _____ views to learn a language in order to be able to do things.

Tasks are activities where the target language is used by the learner for a ______ purpose in order to achieve an outcome.

______language speaks indirectly and involves expressed or implied comparisons of some sort.

Use some secular, free language instead of formal language to introduce yourself.

Successful language learners are independent _.

In the opinion of Palmer and some other linguists of his time,______ played one of the most important roles in foreign language learning.

It’s an activity when the target language is used by the learner for communication purpose （goal） in order to achieve an outcome that can be shared with others. Learners are meaning what they are sayi

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The Keyword Method creates ______ of the language and its counterpart in some form. of wordplay.

The description of a language at some point in history is called a______study.

According to Schumann, SLA is greatly affected by the degree of between the learner and the target－language culture？（)

In some "backward" languages, words for the differences of remoteness are amazingly________

Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the languages of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.

adult learners need more focus on pronunciation because they are more likely to substitute english sounds with sounds from their native language.（)

Due to the ________ influence, some Chinese learners of English wrongly passivize intransitive verbs like “die", as in “ John was died last year"。

Autonomy is a new area in language teaching research, which emphasized the development ofthe learner’s ability to ____ in language learning（）

All human infants can speak some language.（)