As a child grows, he becomes less able to master native-like abilities.

However, students who join later have been shown to gain native-like proficiency.

It also appears that children are more likely than adults to reach native-like competence in a second language.

Is instant availability of native-like competence the only standard for “knowing” a language?

It is not necessary to have a native or native-like proficiency in English to apply for this course.

Furthermore, they discuss a number of cases where a native-like L2 was acquired during adulthood.

Finally, as noted elsewhere, L2 learners rarely achieve complete native-like control of the second language.

This is despite the fact that they could speak fluently and had native-like listening abilities.

It is more difficult to achieve a native-like competence when the language is learned at a later time in life.

Most researchers agree that for adults, acquiring a native-like accent in a non-native language is near impossible.

High-resolution refinement is sometimes used as a final step to fine-tune native-like structures.

The age of 6 or 8 does seem to be an important period in distinguishing between near-native and native-like ultimate attainment.

Our instructors have experience in teaching second languages at the University level and have native or native-like fluency.

Despite persistent efforts, most learners of a second language will never become fully native-like in it, although with practice considerable fluency can be achieved.

Thus these filaments may be considered to be native-like because they are similar to those expected to exist in vivo.

Chin people have a native-like understanding of Mizo language, except for those who live in very remote areas speaking dialects.

However, neurological constraints associated with brain development appear to limit most non-native speakers' ability to sound native-like.

Quantifying word association responses: what is native-like?

It is argued that immersion is necessary, but not sufficient for the development of native-like proficiency in a second language.

Most candidates are native speakers but the course is open to non-native speakers who have a "native-like" level of English.

According to Guiora et al., adults do not have the motivation to change their accent and to acquire native-like pronunciation.

However, most linguistic minorities in Turkey are bilingual, speaking Turkish with native-like fluency.

Several of these studies, they claim, show that learners post-puberty are in fact capable of achieving native-like competence.

But he was undeniably native-like.

Also, it is implicitly assumed that the interactions that stabilize a folding transition state are native-like in nature.