Becoming Fluent Quotes

“Bilingual individuals have been shown to have smaller vocabularies and to take longer in retrieving words from memory when compared to monolinguals.”
― Richard M. Roberts, 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.”
― Richard M. Roberts, 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.”
― Richard M. Roberts, 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.”
― Richard M. Roberts, 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.”
― Richard M. Roberts, Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language