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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Irena  O'Brien
Institution:	Université du Québec à Montréal
Academic Paper Abstract:	Phonological Memory Predicts Second Language Oral Fluency Gains in Adults Phonological memory and lexical, narrative, and grammatical skills in second language oral production by adult learners Phonological memory and children's second language grammar learning
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