Understanding Language 3e - Chapter 5
Loading
Loading

Home > Chapter 5


  1. Home
  2. Chapter 1
  3. Chapter 2
  4. Chapter 3
  5. Chapter 4
  6. Chapter 5
  7. Chapter 6
  8. Chapter 7
  9. Chapter 8
  10. Chapter 9
  11. Chapter 10
  12. Chapter 11
  13. Chapter 12
  14. Chapter 13
  15. Chapter 14

Chapter 5: Language, the Brain and the Mind


Consider the following questions 

  1. How does knowing a little about the brain help your own language learning process or help you as a prospective teacher, clinician, neighbour of language learners?
  2. If you were to study the brain-language connection, what area of the brain would you focus? Why this area? What would you hope to discover?


Suggested Readings

Dingman, M. (2019). Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and Its Quirks. Nicholas Brealey.
Friederici, A. D., Chomsky, N., Berwick, R. C., Moro, A., & Bolhuis, J. J. (2017). Language, Mind and Brain. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(10), 713-722.

Interesting Websites 

  1. Bilingual and monolingual baby brains differ in response to language
  2. Language decoding from functional MRI
  3. Language Pathways and Aphasia, Animation
  4. Sarah Scott: Stroke Recovery
  5. Diagnosing Alzheimer's with PET Scans - Yale Medicine Explains
  6. Specific Language Impairment
  7. Williams Syndrome
  8. Fluent Aphasia (Wernicke's Aphasia)
  9. How to learn major parts of the brain quickly