What happens at the following stages (regarding brain development and acquiring a language): 1. 6-10 yrs 2. 11-13 yrs 3. After puberty

6 – 10 yrs – predisposed for acquiring phonological aspects, prosody, intonation (primary school Ts should have excellent pronunciation) → acquisition of language through listening → CP for pronunciation o 11 – 13 yrs (pre-puberty) – you should start dealing with morpho-syntactic phenomena through patterning (they should be able to induce how past simple is created in English and be able to use it – simply by being exposed to it) → defects in morpho-syntactic area o After puberty – rule-based induction and deduction