Adult ESL learning through immersion and classroom study use different brain processes

Posted on 30/03/2012 by alexcase

…and with the former they “can come to rely on the same brain mechanisms as native speakers of a language, and that this might be true even for those parts of a foreign language that are particularly difficult to learn, such as its grammar”.

No evidence in the research that this is actually an advantage, if you read it carefully:

Immersion foreign language learning study

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2 Responses to Adult ESL learning through immersion and classroom study use different brain processes

  1. Zdenek Rotrekl's avatar Zdenek Rotrekl says:
    03/04/2012 at 18:06

    Honestly, I am puzzled. How do they measure the native likeness on a language which no one speaks? Does the brain change?
    How shall we teach then? And how shall we test?
    I am puzzled.
    But I have one serious question at the end. Who pays for the research?

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  2. Alex Case's avatar Alex Case says:
    07/04/2012 at 09:54

    If you read it carefully, it has nothing to do with their production it is just the parts of the brain that they use. The fact that they haven’t said that improves production almost certainly means that has no benefit at all.

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