Lilo can't wait for school to start. This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class, and she is taking Japanese. Dr. Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life, and he is including Lilo's class in his research. Dr. Nabuto is most likely studying
A) language comprehension.
B) language acquisition.
C) speech production.
D) speech parsing.

Question

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Dr. Nabuto is interested in how people learn additional languages later in life, indicating that he is studying language acquisition, which refers to the process of learning a language, whether as a child or an adult. Language comprehension refers to understanding a language that one already knows. Speech production refers to the process of generating speech, and speech parsing refers to the ability to analyze and understand spoken language.

Lilo Can't Wait for School to Start