NEUROLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

English teaching practicum

Jessica Sarabia

NeurobiologicalLeft hemisphere focuses in language. Lateralization ends to work in the puberty

so, the child neurologically assigning function little y little to one side of the brain or the other.

Biological Timeable: the accent at puberty, enabling species to form an identity with their own community as they anticipate roles of parenting and leadership.

Right hemisphere is better to learn SL post-pubescent.

Antropological evidence: tells us hat in the adulthood, a person, could acquire more than two languages if it is exposes to;

childhood

cognitive

pubertyadulthood

Developing their sensory motor

stage

They become capable of

abstraction, of formal thinking.

They could profit from certain grammatical

explanations and deductive thinking.

affective

Language ego

Second identity

Peer pressure

Very young children are highly egocentric, the world revolves

about them.At puberty the inhibitions are heightened in the trauma of undergoing critical physical,

cognitive and emotional changes.These changes rise to a defensive mechanism I which the language

ego becomes protective and defensive.

In adults the ego is a powerful tool to their self-confidence.

The negative attitudes ca affect success in learning a language.Macnamara noted that “ a child

who suddenly is transported from Montereal to Berlin will rapidly learn German, but as children,

reach school age, he also begins to acquire certain attitudes toward types and stereotypes of people of

there.

The peer pressure children encounter in language learning is quite unlike what the

adult experiences. Adults tent to tolerate linguistics differences

more than children, and therefore errors in

speech are more easily excused.

linguistic

BILINGUALISMWhen a child learns two languages at the same time; child learns two first languages.

Interference L1 and L2Grammatical structure is easily confused. The brain pressure to apply the structure acquired in childhood is stronger.In adults it is more vulnerable.

Order of acquisitionChildren use a creative construction process, as they do in their L1.