Becoming Fluent

Informationen zum Autor Richard Roberts! currently a Foreign Service Officer in the US Department of State! taught psychology in Europe and Asia with the University of Maryland University College. Roger Kreuz is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis. Klappentext 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

Product details

• Authors: Roger J. Kreuz, Roger J. (Associate Dean and Professor Kreuz, Roberts Richard, Richard Roberts, Richard M. Roberts, Richard M. (Foreign Service Officer Roberts, Richard M. Kreuz Roberts, Kreuz Roger
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780262029230
• ISBN: 978-0-262-02923-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Becoming Fluent; Becoming Fluent
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology