When learning a second language, don’t think about home; don’t even think about your friends or family. Trace explains why.
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Trying to Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/06/trying-to-learn-a-foreign-langua.html?ref=hp
“Something odd happened when Shu Zhang was giving a presentation to her classmates at the Columbia Business School in New York City.”
What to avoid when learning a foreign language
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/what-to-avoid-when-learning-a-foreign-language/22823?tag=search-river
“Sometimes, a familiar face is the last thing you need to see. Reminders of home can disrupt your ability to process a foreign language, a new study says.”
Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/12/1304435110
“For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting’s cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments.”
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