Culture, Psychology, and Language Learning

Learning a foreign language facilitates the most intimate access one can get to the culture and society of another language community. The process of learning a foreign language always involves intercultural levels of engagement between the languages and cultures concerned. This series is not limited to the field of applied linguistics but also includes relevant research from linguistic anthropology, language learning pedagogy, translation studies and language philosophy.

Michael Hager is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Toronto, Canada. His principal areas of research are foreign language pedagogy and business German. He was previously Assistant Professor of German at Penn State University, USA, and has also taught English, German and Intercultural Communication at Siemens in Berlin, Germany.

Contents: Second Language Acquisition – Culture – Language – Biculturalism, Bilingualism, and Identity – Cross-Cultural Awareness – Psychology and Language Learning – Information Processing – Cognition – Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition – Memory. Inhaltsverzeichnis