Q355818 - FUNDEP - 2014 - IF-SP - Professor - Língua Inglesa

“Adults and adolescents can ‘acquire’ a second language” (Lightbown 2000, p. 439).
In the sentence above, the word acquire is used to refer to

a) learning things that have been the subject of explicit metalinguistic inferences.
b) the development experienced by learners exposed to formal metalinguistic skills.
c) the linguistic abilities that learners develop in the absence of metalinguistic instruction.
d) what learners come to know about language by means of formal metalinguistic analysis.

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