The natural order hypothesis states that all learners acquire a language in roughly the same order.

As novices in the academic principle, less proficient learners acquire the knowledge of academic discourse from the interaction with experts in the field.

As long as they get some exposure to written language, most learners will acquire at least a modicum of literacy.

The general conclusion from these investigations is that different aged learners acquire the various aspects of language with varying difficulty.

One idea is that learners acquire proficiency in an L2 in the same way that people acquire other complex cognitive skills.

Noticing alone does not mean that learners automatically acquire language; rather, the hypothesis states that noticing is the essential starting point for acquisition.

In the 1970s several studies investigated the order in which learners acquired different grammatical structures.

Through online education, the AVC's focus is helping learners acquire basic knowledge in Armenian studies.

Traditionally, in education in particular, the conventional approach was that young learners acquired conventions of print which made each student a discursive learner.

This states that learners acquire the grammatical features of a language in a fixed order, and that this is not affected by instruction.