(Steinberg: 208) Another possible reason is offered by Flege (Theo Bongaerts et al, 1997) that "one of the main cause of foreign accents is the increasing tendency of L2 learners, once they have established the phonetic categories for their L1, to perceive L2 sound in terms of those categories. ... (Brown: 54) To put it in another way, "while you are young, at an age at which the pattern and rules of your native language are still comparatively new to you, the interference that comes form the rules of the native language is likely to be small. ... (Brown: 116) While the motivation of classroom...

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