<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>I <font size="2">vaguely recall that the results of the study were that a tiny amount of alcohol relaxed the students and they did a bit better, but being out-and-out sloshed didn't work so well (big surprise!).<br>
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From: anne marie devlin <anne_mariedevlin@hotmail.com><br>
To: The Educational Linguistics List <edling@bunner.geol.lu.se><br>
Sent: Wed, Jun 4, 2014 12:07 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Edling] A pill for learning Chinese?<br>
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Don't know anything about the pill, but there was a study carried out in the early 1970s by Guiora (I think) that highlighted the benefits of alcohol to SLA.
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<div>Reminds me of the Ogden Nash poem:</div>
<div>Candy is dandy</div>
<div>But liquor is quicker</div>
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<div>All the best</div>
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<div>Anne Marie<br>
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<div>> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:35:35 +0100<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:r.hudson@ucl.ac.uk">r.hudson@ucl.ac.uk</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:edling@bunner.geol.lu.se">edling@bunner.geol.lu.se</a><br>
> Subject: [Edling] A pill for learning Chinese?<br>
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> Dear Colleague,<br>
> Anyone know about this suggestion that drugs can help language-learning?<br>
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> <a href="http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Are_drugs_the_answer_to_learning_a_language.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Are_drugs_the_answer_to_learning_a_language.cfm</a><br>
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> Dick<br>
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> Richard Hudson (dickhudson.com)<br>
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