Lilo Can't Wait for School to Start

question 40

Multiple Choice

Lilo can't wait for school to start. This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class, and she is taking Japanese. Dr. Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life, and he is including Lilo's class in his research. Dr. Nabuto is most likely studying

• A) language comprehension.
• B) language acquisition.
• C) speech production.
• D) speech parsing.

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