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The Beliefs about Language Learning of Beginning University Foreign Language Students
Author(s) -
HORWITZ ELAINE K.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1988.tb04190.x
Subject(s) - foreign language , citation , linguistics , psychology , mathematics education , sociology , computer science , library science , philosophy
liefs about how languages are learned.1 Definite viewpoints on the best techniques for learning a language, the "right" age to begin language study, and the nature of the language learning process are the subject of airline magazine articles, Sunday supplement advertisements, and cocktail party small-talk. Many people apparently believe, for example, that second language fluency can be obtained with relatively little effort. In the course of a review of the time