THE ROLE OF WORKING MEMORY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
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Key words: working memory, linguistic information, listening activities, reading structures, billingual and multilingual learners.Abstract
Abstract: Overall, working memory is much more useful nout only to our understanding but also it improves new skills and structures to learn other new languages. Additionally, working memory helps keep information for a long time.
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