Author: Los Angeles County Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Adult Catalog: Books in Foreign Languages
Author: Los Angeles County Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Becoming Fluent
Author: Richard RobertsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262529807
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
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.
The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912
Author: Marion Effie PotterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
Book Description
Libraries and Adult Education
Author: American Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Papers and Proceedings
Author: American Library Association. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Library Resources for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Author: DIANE Publishing CompanyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788127322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Libraries & machine-lending agencies are arranged alphabetically by state. Within each state, the regional library appears first, followed by subregional libraries listed alphabetically by city. Each entry includes full address, telephone #, in-WATS #, TDD #, fax #, geographic area serviced, name of librarian, machine agency name, hours of operation, book collection, special collections, assistive devices, special services, & publications. Extensive statistics on readership, circulation, budget, staff, & collections.
Library Resources for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Author: Barry LeonardPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788174371
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Books Related to Adult Basic Education and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Author: Source Materials for Secondary School Teachers of Foreign Language
Author: Esther May EatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description