THE PECULIARITIES OF LEARNING A FOREIGN AND NATIVE LANGUAGE BY CHILDREN AND ADULTS (TOWARDS A TENTATIVE TEACHING PROGRAMME ON RUSSIAN PHONETICS AND INTONATION)
The comparison of typical phonetic errors that preschool age childrentends to make with those of foreign students (freshman year) has shown high correlation of pronunciation problems. Children s mistakes help to understand the nature of mistakes made by students who study the second foreign language. The first step to acquisition of the foreign language is in deliberate control of native language pronunciation.