SeranAktuna studies the learning of English as a Second Language (ESL). She is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She said that she sees more demand for teachers of ESL, you see examples of many governments spending a lot of money toward effort to teach English to their citizens, thinking that it would give them an economic advantage in a globalized would. Aktuna and other researchers have found if learners of a language start studying at a later age, they already have a language, a linguistic system, that can help with a second language acquisition,” she explained. “But it can also interfere as in the cases of accents, and sometimes just carrying grammatical use from the mother tongue to the language that you were learning.”
“It’s probably in terms of the input,” she said. Because everyone are receiving input in other language at home, and when they come to school it is a different set of rules and pronunciation patterns and so on, and they have to deal with both. She agrees that the sooner people try to learn a language. If you want kids, specializing in more than one language should let him learn those languages since the child so that he could use the language correctly.