How Are First-Language Acquisition and Typical Second-Language Acquisition Different

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Essay

How are first-language acquisition and typical second-language acquisition different?

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Definitions:

Standardized Testing

A form of testing that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from a common bank of questions, in the same way, to enable a consistent measurement of their abilities or performance.

Cognitive Ability

The capacity to perform mental processes related to learning, thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, and memory.

Cultural Bias

The phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture, leading to a skewed understanding or assessment.

Tracking

Grouping, or stratifying, students in school on the basis of ability test scores.