ADVANCES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING: WHY ARE THEY SO MUCH SLOWER THAN ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY?

Abstract

The reason behind publishing the article in this journal is that the author has been actively co-operating with academic workers involved in research in the area of military technology. This article presents some issues of language learning and teaching. The complexity of the process of language learning and language acquisition is clarified. The most frequent problems of adult language learners are approached from the point of view of both language specialists and learners - mostly technically oriented academic workers. Krashen's theory of language learning and language acquisition is explained. The process of language learning is a complicated and almost never-ending process. Each learner expects something different from language learning and each of them has also different pre-dispositions to learn a foreign language. There is no universal or ideal methodology to efficiently teach foreign languages.