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Learning a Foreign Language through the Media. CLCS Occasional Paper No. 18.
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Devitt, Sean M. – 1986
The use of mass media as a means of learning a foreign language from the beginning of language study is discussed. Using the media enables many of the features of the natural language acquisition process to be brought into play in a way that much current language teaching material does not. This position is supported by recent research into the…
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