Based on Chomsky, Universal Grammar (UG) refers to the common principles and features of human language. This essay aims to indicate that UG plays a minor role in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) through providing a series of supporting ideas. These ideas contain (1) the knowledge of second language was acquired through some other senses of human brains, which was not through language sense - Universal Grammar, (2) Native Language (NL) plays a major in SLA, and (3) Bley-Vorman's Fundamental Difference Hypothesis.
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