Like it or not, this world is becoming more interconnected. It is becoming easier, and more necessary, interact with people from other countries. The issue here is that at least in our Western world quasi-official language to communicate with foreigners who speak no English language is English.
is why it is becoming more emphasis on children to learn a second language to enable them to have a tool but to thrive in this world. And this brings me to the question: why are children who have an easier time learning to speak a second language?. I remember giving me the damn book stops against the English because nomas was no one, while immediately saw some guys fishing the "inglish" on the fly.
Well, recently, a study published in February interested in this problem (the cost of acquiring a second language, not because I gave the cap against the book .) Tan, Chen, Yip, Chan, Yang, Gao and Siok, Science Lab Brain and Cognitive, University of Hong Kong in China published in the PNAS article entitled "Activity Levels in the left hemisphere caudate-spindle circuit predict how well a second language will Learned ', or what more or less means" levels circuit activity in the caudate-spindle left hemisphere, predict how well they will learn a second language. "
For this study used functional MRI to obtain brain activity in children 10 years of age while they performed a lexical decision task either in their native language (Chinese) or second language (English). All children were the same school system and at the same level of English. During the experiment they were asked to read a text in English before entering the resonator. Once in the resonator were shown words in English as "bucket" or seudopalabras as "yall" and had to identify whether each word was real or not. The interesting thing here is that to evaluate their progress, these children were re-scanned a year later.
What were the results?
Well, the results were very interesting. The first study analysis showed that cerebral activity levels of the caudate nucleus and left hemisphere fusiform gyrus correlated with the performance of boys were shown in English. But that was not all, when the researchers returned to assess children a year later, they realized that they had found the activity a year ago, predicted the level of second language acquisition of children who had!. In fact, analysis of brain activity that was taken at the end of the year, was correlated with the level of performance for each child. Therefore, the authors conclude that the circuit activity levels caudate-spindle left hemisphere predict the potential Learning a second language.
This is a surprising conclusion. Taken with all the reserves of skepticism, as this would mean that measuring the activity of the caudate-spindle circuit, one could predict how difficult or easy it will do to a guy learning a second language. Imagine! It could plan how many classes a week need to be good at English, or flat, because there the matter died. Clearly not to give up!, One need not be proficient in English to reach great heights in the workplace. You see, just last week we fate gave a clear example of how you can shine in some aspects and may even have stunted the circuit. Glancing Sure as the teacher Dóriga López became one more of the stars, not the channel of the stars, but youtube! (Which makes me wonder how good I was never filmed while in inglish mumble!).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ohnoecUbY