Download or read book The Boat's Gonna Leave written by Anca M. Nemoianu and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children. The study seeks to integrate the process of second language learning in the general framework of child development, concentrating in particular on the development of language and conversational skills.