It is known that age plays a vital role in foreign language teaching and learning, thus lots of experiments have been conducted to examine the existence of critical period or to define the exact critical period for foreign language learning. This article aims to find corresponding regularity through making statistical analysis on experiments of age-related factors in foreign language learning.
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