The Foray into the Neurosciences: Have We Learned Anything Useful Yet?.

Mollica, Anthony; Danesi, Marcel

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Publication Date: 1995

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The Foray into the Neurosciences: Have We Learned Anything Useful Yet?

Mollica, Anthony; Danesi, Marcel

Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, v2 n4 p12-20 Sum 1995

Reviews research on the neuroscientific perspective to second-language acquisition and teaching, focusing on the "critical period" of language acquisition, brain hemispheric mapping, universal grammar theory, the modal directionality principle, and the modal focusing principle. (contains 74 references) (MDM)

Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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