A pill for learning Chinese?

[Elizabeth Scheyder]

Yes, I remember reading that in Rod Ellis’ “Second Language Acquisition”, and my students always find it amusing (as an anecdote, not a classroom practice!)

Here’s Guiora’s article:
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/34041/0000318.pdf?sequence=1

YMMV,
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth C. Scheyder, Ph.D., P.E.
Instructional Technology Project Leader
SAS Computing, University of Pennsylvania




On Jun 3, 2014, at 11:31 AM, anne marie devlin <anne_mariedevlin at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Dick
> 
> 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.
> 
> Reminds me of the Ogden Nash poem:
> Candy is dandy
> But liquor is quicker
> 
> All the best
> 
> Anne Marie
> 
> > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:35:35 +0100
> > From: r.hudson at ucl.ac.uk
> > To: edling at bunner.geol.lu.se
> > Subject: [Edling] A pill for learning Chinese?
> > 
> > Dear Colleague,
> > Anyone know about this suggestion that drugs can help language-learning?
> > 
> > http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Are_drugs_the_answer_to_learning_a_language.cfm
> > 
> > Dick
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Richard Hudson (dickhudson.com)
> > 
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