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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:	Paul  Nation
Institution:	Victoria University of Wellington
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/staff/paul-nation/nation.aspx
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Learning Vocabulary in Another Language
Dissertation Director * of:	Optimising Second Language Vocabulary Learning from Flashcards (Tatsuya Nakata, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Role of Intentional Decontextualised Learning in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: Evidence from primed lexical decision tasks with advanced bilinguals (Irina Elgort, Author)
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