The impact of foreign language learning ability
According to Japan’s Kyodo News reported on the 4th, the University of Tokyo associate professor of brain science Sakai language research team led recently in the U.S. scientific journal “Human brain imaging,” published research results that are good at foreign languages, his parietal lobe of the brain about the former two lateral inferior frontal gyrus, the left than the right inferior frontal gyrus. This is the first time scientists and foreign language learning ability-related brain structures.
Sakai said: “It is so well developed as the site of achieving expanded and improved foreign language or foreign language to study hard so that the larger part of this causal relationship is unclear.”
The research team through the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 78 from the beginning of first grade junior high school to learn English and Japanese in early high school students from 17 primary schools, starting to learn English from non-English speaking students of the adult brain form a sophisticated measurement, and the measured object, such as answering questions in English grammar, and then compare results with the relationship between the shape of the brain. It was found that was considered responsible for dealing with the syntax of the volume of the left inferior frontal gyrus in the right side of the greater achievements of the people, the better.
The tendency in Japan between the students and foreign students, and there is no difference between different genders. Researchers to determine which foreign language learning ability of the brain due to the structure of individual differences.
June 28th, 2009 | Category: languages
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