Adults have metalinguistic knowledge: conscious, analytic, knowledge of their use of language, and often also formal knowledge of the terminology of grammar. This gives them the means to learn in conscious and analytic ways seemingly quite different from those of children. They are also able, to some extent, to monitor their speechcomparing their utterances with their conscious knowledge, and correcting accordingly.
The learning style of children is more intuitive and, it is reasonable to 'natural' say, more The different learning styles of adults and children have been distinguished as 'learning' and 'acquisition'. The conscious and analytical approach of adults has been termed language learning, and the unconscious and spontaneous approach of children language acquisition. Some language teachers doubt whether adults, in speaking, can actually apply such rules as (for English speakers learning Spanish) 'The allophone of/d/ after vowel is [0] or even 'use a with human direct objects'. But learning such rules and using them in doing classroom practice and homework may be useful as a way to obtain experience with the language, and practice which child learners obtain naturally.
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