Neurolinguistics of bilingualism and the teaching of languages
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Who Is a Bilingual?
The question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. Bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. However, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...
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The notion of bilingualism refers to all those people who use or simply know two or more languages, including dialects (Grosjean, 1994 ). Just to provide some fi gures, let us consider that something like 7,000 languages are spoken in barely 160 countries. Furthermore, in many of these countries the number of spoken languages is constantly growing due to massive immigration. This means that ove...
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Bilingualism represents an interesting model of possible experience-dependent alterations in brain structure. The current study examines whether interhemispheric adaptations in brain structure are associated with bilingualism. Corpus callosum volume and cortical thickness asymmetry across 13 regions of interest (selected to include critical language and bilingual cognitive control areas) were m...
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