Choose 4 of the 20 different ideas that are important. For each, explain their significance and then identify and discuss how the research studies you read or heard about has strengthened your agreement or disagreement with the statement or has led you to change your views. You may NOT take a stance that you neither agree nor disagree – you must be decisive. Clearly you will have to cite several different resources to complete this reflection, and you will need to include a reference section at the end of the paper.

You will need to choose and organize your ideas logically so that your reflection paper has some flow to it. That being said, you can choose ANY of the 20 ideas below.

1. Languages are learned mainly through imitation.
2. Parents should correct young children when they make grammatical errors.
3. If a person doesn’t begin to learn a second language before puberty, he or she will be unable to learn the language.
4. The earlier a second language is introduced in school programs, the greater the likelihood of success in learning.
5. Young children are the best learners of additional languages.
6. Most of the mistakes that second language learners make are due to interference from their first language.
7. A person’s first language can help them learn their second language.
8. Learners’ errors should be corrected as soon as they are made in order to prevent the formation of bad habits.
9. When learners are allowed to interact freely (for example, in group or pair activities), they copy each other’s mistakes.
10. Teachers should respond to students’ errors by correctly rephrasing what they have said rather than by explicitly pointing out the error.
11. Teachers don’t need to focus on rules (like grammar) for students to learn a second language.
12. Teachers should use materials that expose students only to language structures they have already been taught.
13. Teachers should teach simple language structures before complex ones.
14. Classrooms are good places to learn about language but not for learning how to use language.
15. Language learning is systematic.
16. Highly intelligent people are good language learners.
17. Some people who have normal cognitive development just can’t learn a second language because they lack the ability.
18. The most important predictor of success in second language acquisition is motivation.
19. External motivation is not helpful in learning a second language.
20. Extroverted people make better language learners than introverted people.these are 20 ideas you can choose just four.

Choose 4 of the 20 different ideas that are important. For each, ex...