Success with foreign languages: seven who achieved it and what worked for them

✍ Scribed by Earl W. Stevick

• Book ID: 127421848
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Prentice Hall International language teaching methodology series. Teacher education
• Category: Library
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0138602891

✦ Synopsis

This book contains Earl Stevick's analysis of the strategies used by seven successful language learners and the implications for becoming a more successful language learner yourself. There are extensive excerpts from taped interviews with the seven learners, with Stevick's comments on the strategies and beliefs of the various learners. The book ends with Stevick's summary of what we can learn from the experiences of these learners. This book shows the diversity of approaches and beliefs that can be held by successful language learners and can provide suggestions for strategies that may work for you.