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students as the subjects of teaching and learning language
process in the room.

Other characteristics of classroom situation. Individual
must subordinate their behavior and follow classroom procedures

for the benefit of all, the need to attend class in order to learn,
the need for long periods of concentration and when required
having to do home study.

Based on thae statement above, So, who is better?
1) The Natural situation
In the natural situation, younger children will do best.

First of all, the natural situation is ore favorable to children
because adults undergo a marked decline in the quality and

quantity of social interaction conducive to good language
learning.
In the natural situation, will be easier for children to

learn syntax than it will be for adult. Since, adult undergo a
decline in memory and without remembering data there is

nothing to analyze. Adults and even older children no longer
have the formidable powers of rote learning that young
learners do. Although adult devise memory strategies and can

seek out more practice. Children possess the flexibility in
motor skills which adult do not have. Children will do much

better in acquiring native pronunciations in second language.
It can be conclude that in all respects of language learning,
for the natural situation, children will do better than adults,

with younger children doing better than older children.

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