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

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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529807
• ISBN13: 9780262529808
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher