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“Bilingual individuals have been shown to have smaller vocabularies and to take longer in retrieving words from memory when compared to monolinguals.”
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
“One of the great joys of learning another language is encountering new concepts.”
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
“it has been estimated that there are fewer monolingual speakers in the world than bilinguals and multilinguals.”
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
“Rather than focusing on exercises that primarily tax working memory, we suggest that adult language learners acquire new vocabulary, grammatical structures, and idiomatic expressions by focusing on meaning.”
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
“Learning to chunk seemingly disconnected words into meaningful units, and focusing on meaning through the use of paraphrasing, will make the time spent studying more effective.”
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
― Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
