A Child's guide to language. Teaching a second language
Description
Whether it's English, Spanish, Chinese, or Urdu, babies and young children are able to pick up their native language with remarkable ease; no one language seems any more difficult than any other. Yet few children who are taught a language in school have anything to show for it when they grow up. Why is learning a second or third language so difficult? Are the teaching methods at fault? Enough is now known about the process of language acquisition to suggest that language teaching can be more effective. This BBC Horizon program looks at some of the different language acquisition methods in use in schools around the world.
Runtime
50 min
Subjects
- Learning, Psychology of (143)
- Cognitive psychology (167)
- Education (938)
- Child development (475)
- Linguistics (60)
- Psycholinguistics (40)
- Educational psychology (148)
- Intellect (87)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2007], c1983
Database
Films on Demand
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