I am going to make a comparison between adult and teenager EFL learners in terms of their attention to and noticing of oral corrective feedback. The factors leading to possible differences can be both emotional and cognitive. For instance, in terms of emotional differences, adult learners have a higher feeling of inhibition in contrast to teenagers. I could not find much information in the literature on language learning.
Have you done the obvious search on Google and Scholar etc. for: adult teenager EFL emotional cognitive?
Actually, I want some material which is related to their language learning ability. I know there might be a very large body of literature related to cognitive and emotional differences between these two age groups but almost none (recent) related to language learning. At least I couldn't find. I have searched the net but found no up-to-date information or articles/books.
OK. Should you then be searching for: language learning differences adults teenagers?
I guarantee that if you chose your keyphrase, keywords and journal database with care you will find articles.
Try the following authors: Skehan, Spada, Lightbown, Krashen, R. Ellis. They have written most of FLL/SLA core literature in the area. The books are fairly old, but I would guess that they must have written something new in the past few years.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=&q=Skehan%2C+Spada%2C+Lightbown%2C+Krashen%2C+R.+Ellis.
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