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, 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.
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