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Post by ayteama on Oct 7, 2014 22:35:02 GMT -5
What is the difference between left and right brain dominance? and which is potentially significant issue in developing second language acquisition? (Page 125)
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Post by kara on Oct 9, 2014 12:58:55 GMT -5
and which is potentially significant issue in developing second language acquisition
Left brained people tend to be more logical, analytical, and objective while right brained people are more intuitive, thoughtful, and subjective. I've heard people say that right nrained people tend to be more artistic while left brained people tend to be more intelligent (I don't think so, but just something i've heard). The left-side of the brain however, is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, and language. So in this sense we may think left-brained people are quick to pick up language. I don't know if this is true, because I have been fairly successful in Japanese and I consider myself to be a right brained person.
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Post by kristine14 on Oct 13, 2014 13:48:32 GMT -5
According to theorist, each side of the brain (left and right) control different types of thinking. The right side is better at expressive and creative tasks. Other right-brain characterizes include recognizing faces, expressing emotions, music, reading emotions, color, images, intuition, and creativity.
The left side of the brain focuses on logic, language and analytical thinking. Left-brain characteristics include language, logic, critical thinking, numbers and reasoning.
I feel that the left-brain is necessary to learn language. The left side focuses on intellectual, verbal instruction and explanations, reliance on language in thinking and remember, prefer talking and writing, not good at interpreting body language, rarely uses metaphors, and favors logic. I feel that these apply to all of my students. ELL students would have a difficult time interpreting body language, social cues, idioms, using metaphors and so forth. I feel that these would be difficult to teach and explain.
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Post by nstashenko on Oct 13, 2014 20:50:56 GMT -5
The difference between the right and left brain dominance is that each of the sides of the brain perform a specific functions and the differences between the left and right brain are the characteristics. However both of the hemispheres work together as a team. Both of the hemispheres are important and significant when it comes to learning a second language. However the study concluded that "left brain dominant second language learners are better at producing separate words, gathering the specifics of language, carrying out sequences of operations and dealing with abstraction, classification, labeling and reorganizing." I think both of the hemispheres are important when learning a second language. However I think the left hemisphere is more dominant when learning second language because it stores information and relies on language and thinking which is effective when learning a second language.
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Post by nancy27c on Oct 15, 2014 21:03:34 GMT -5
While the left brain is supposed to be logical and the right side is supposed to be creative, and language is developed in the left side of the brain, I believe that both sides are used in language because certain things we've discussed this semester would not be possible like pidginization, which seems to use a creative proccess to develop. I believe that there is a dominance though of left brain use in second language development because we are building on first languages when we first start learning a second language, hence thinking in the first language when first speaking in the second language.
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Post by Maria on Oct 16, 2014 15:42:20 GMT -5
The left hemisphere is associated with logical; analytical thought that deals with mathematics and processing information. The right percieves visual, tactile, and auditory images making it more efficient in processing emotional information. I think both sides work together to learn a second language. We've learned that memorization, rules, and word structure are all important but not the only factors to really develop understanding of a particular language. It's the right side that helps make the connections and pulls all the information you've learned together so that your actually making sense of what your saying.
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