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1. Apply skeptical inquiry to a brief discussion about why language acquisition is an important area for scholars and educators to understand when developing learning opportunities.
2. Choose and define three new vocabulary terms from the week's readings and explain one's interest in these concepts.
3. Discuss how additional factors self-regulation might affect language acquisition.
4. Apply the concept of language acquisition to an individual's academic success. Has one's language development affected their success? As an employee? How? Based on the resources, could someone develop areas of language acquisition, personally, that would be beneficial to individuals and those around them.