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easily until about 12 years of age and that almost everyone can
learn some or most of a second language after that age. Children
are generally better than adults at acquiring native-speaker
pronunciation in a second language.

5. Language Disorders
A language disorder is impairment in receptive or
expressive language development, substantially below the child‟s

or young person‟s non-verbal cognitive abilities. Language
disorders interfere with academic and occupational achievement
and social interaction. The severity of the language disorder
cannot be accounted for by other conditions, such as intellectual
disability, hearing impairment, environmental or emotional
factors. Diagnosis of a language disorder is typically made by
formal standardised assessment carried out by an
interdisciplinary team of a speech pathologist and a psychologist.

Based on the explanaition above, it can be conclude that
language disorders, known as aphasias, are presumed to have as
their cause some form of damage to some specific site in the
hemisphere where language is located. Such damage causes
characteristic problems in spontaneous speech, as well as in the
understanding of speech and writing. Here some of language

disorders:
a. Broca’s Aphasia

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