Description: Title: Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language Author: Roberts, Richard Publisher: MIT Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 248 Dimensions: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d Product Weight: 0.6 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780262529808 Forget everything you've heard about adult language learning: evidence from cognitive science and psychology prove we can learn foreign languages just as easily as children. An eye-opening study on how adult learners can master a foreign lanugage by drawing on skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime. 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 master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do; they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children. Children appear to have only two advantages over adults in learning a language: they acquire a native accent more easily, and they do not suffer from self-defeating anxiety about learning a language. Adults, on the other hand, have the greater advantages--gained from experience--of an understanding of their own mental processes and knowing how to use language to do things. Adults have an especially advantageous grasp of pragmatics, the social use of language, and Roberts and Kreuz show how to leverage this metalinguistic ability in learning a new language. Learning a language takes effort. But if adult learners apply the tools acquired over a lifetime, it can be enjoyable and rewarding. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer {{Overnight Shipping Available (10:30am CST Cutoff Time)}}
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Book Title: MIT Press
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Becoming Fluent : How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Cognitive Science, Miscellaneous, Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Type: Language Course
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Psychology, Science
Author: Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
