Limitation of teaching second language in higher education institutes

Teaching language at the kinder-garten is more effective than teaching the same at colleges. A careful analysis on the progress of language-learning during the primary stages of life may help us to understand the demands of language teaching and learning. A child learns his first language at the start involuntarily and mostly unconsciously from random exposure, even if no attempts at teaching are made. When it comes to school to learn a second language, it takes usually more time for the second than for the first i.e. learning the second language is not as rapid as that of learning the first. On the other hand a child, who does not share the mother tongue with his counterparts, learns the language of his immediate environment faster than the language of instruction.