Language Acquisition After Puberty
Judith R. Strozer
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Hardback. Bridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and language teaching, this title explores what theoretical advances suggest about learning a language after childhood and the implications for the design and execution of a foreign language program. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 560.
Bridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and language teaching, Judith R. Strozer explores what recent theoretical advances suggest about learning a language after childhood and the implications for the design and execution of a foreign language program. Strozer outlines clearly, in nontechnical language, the major concepts of modern language theory, from Chomsky's theory of language through the most recent discoveries about the abstract foundations of language. She explains ideas about the evolution of a cognitive structure for language in the human brain, a "language faculty" or Universal Grammar that gives humans alone the creative ability to generate the infinite ... Read more
Bridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and language teaching, Judith R. Strozer explores what recent theoretical advances suggest about learning a language after childhood and the implications for the design and execution of a foreign language program. Strozer outlines clearly, in nontechnical language, the major concepts of modern language theory, from Chomsky's theory of language through the most recent discoveries about the abstract foundations of language. She explains ideas about the evolution of a cognitive structure for language in the human brain, a "language faculty" or Universal Grammar that gives humans alone the creative ability to generate the infinite ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9780878402441
SKU
V9780878402441
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99-27
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