Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language

by Richard M. Roberts, Roger J. Kreuz, Richard Roberts

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029235
• ISBN13: 9780262029230
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher