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Do we all have to study American textbooks? No! Do we all have to study textbooks written in English? Yes! Why? I see at least two reasons for this. First, English has become the professional language in which the science of psychology progresses. Therefore, already at the start of their education, academic students should learn to accommodate the language and the specific terminology in which the communication with their future peers will be performed. Second, the first year of a higher education course in the Netherlands serves not only the purpose of introducing students to the field but also the purpose of student selection. Therefore, academic students should find out early whether a study involving lots of reading in English is suited to them.
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Brysbaert, M., & Dumoulin, F. (2007). Do we all have to study American textbooks? Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 63 58-67.
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Correspondence to: Dr P.A. Starreveld, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychonomics, Room 616, Roetersstraat 15, NL 1018 WB Amsterdam, e-mail: P.A.Starreveld@uva.nl
Submitted 12 January 2007; revision accepted 14 March 2007.
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Starreveld, P.A. Discussion. NEJP 63, 63–64 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03061065
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03061065