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Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
Richard M. Roberts
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Description for Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
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How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language. Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can ... Read more
How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language. Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262529808
SKU
V9780262529808
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Ref
99-13
About Richard M. Roberts
Richard Roberts is a Foreign Service Officer currently serving as the Public Affairs Officer at the US Consulate General in Okinawa, Japan. He is the coauthor (with Roger Kreuz) of of Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language and Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication, both published by the MIT Press. Roger ... Read more
Reviews for Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
The authors bring forth concepts, research, and theories in cognitive science to explain how adults learn, making this book that is packed full of useful scientific information applicable to other learning situations. -Library Journal The book is helpful for the adult language student but also full of useful information that we can use in other learning situations. ... Read more