Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Bilingual Brain

    The story about Wu-Kyeong Kim who is a hard-working student that attract me so much. Someone include me are confused that why baby study second language so fast and easy? Is there anything different between baby's brain and adult's?
    Nowadays, Kim, who is a assistant working in the lab of Joy Hirsch, a neuroscientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. They have discovered something different between baby's brain and adult's. They found many evidence to prove that different part of brain has different function. There is a area called Wernicke process the meaning of language. Another named Broca's area which in the left frontal part is thought to manage speech production. Both of them can influence someone's ability that to learn language. How do these two areas works? One possibilities is when you teaching language to baby, they can combine the sounds and structures into one area of brain natural. And adult wiring is completly grow up, that means they will learn new sounds and new structures in another parts of brain. Another possibilities is baby learn language from their parents, parents often teach the word which is very tactile, auditory, visual so that baby can access so easy. And adults formed a completely opinion, whatever, it is difficult for adult to learn second language.

2 comments:

  1. Very nice summary. You used a very good introduction and showed an understanding of the reading.

    Great Job!!!

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