Foreign language proficiency and working memory capacity

European Psychologist

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 289-296

  Van Den Noort, Maurits W M L ^a   Bosch, Peggy ^a,b   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Foreign language acquisition; Language proficiency; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750518761     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.11.4.289     Document Type: Article

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