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"Understanding the Brain", The Birth of a Learning Science, 2007, pages 85 - 86
Language and Developmental Sensitivities (3)
Grammar
Grammar
There is also a developmental sensitivity for learning the grammar of a language: the earlier a language is learned, the more efficiently the brain can master its grammar (Neville and Bruer, 2001).
If the brain is exposed to a foreign language between 1 and 3 years of age, grammar is processed by the left hemisphere as in a native speaker but even delaying learning until between 4 and 6 years of age means that the brain processes grammatical information with both hemispheres.
When the initial exposure occurs at the ages of 11, 12 or 13 years, corresponding to the early stage of secondary schooling, brain imaging studies reveal an aberrant activation pattern.
Delaying exposure to language therefore leads the brain to use a different strategy for processing grammar.
This is consistent with behavioural findings that later exposure to a second language results in significant deficits in grammatical processing (Fledge and Fletcher, 1992)
The pattern seems thus to be that early exposure to grammar leads to a highly effective processing strategy, in contrast with alternative, and less efficient, processing strategies associated with later exposure.
If the brain is exposed to a foreign language between 1 and 3 years of age, grammar is processed by the left hemisphere as in a native speaker but even delaying learning until between 4 and 6 years of age means that the brain processes grammatical information with both hemispheres.
When the initial exposure occurs at the ages of 11, 12 or 13 years, corresponding to the early stage of secondary schooling, brain imaging studies reveal an aberrant activation pattern.
Delaying exposure to language therefore leads the brain to use a different strategy for processing grammar.
This is consistent with behavioural findings that later exposure to a second language results in significant deficits in grammatical processing (Fledge and Fletcher, 1992)
The pattern seems thus to be that early exposure to grammar leads to a highly effective processing strategy, in contrast with alternative, and less efficient, processing strategies associated with later exposure.
"Understanding the Brain", The Birth of a Learning Science, 2007, pages 85 - 86
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