The Neurobiology of Learning: Perspectives from Second Language Acquisition

The Neurobiology of Learning: Perspectives from Second Language Acquisition

by: John H. Schumann, Sheila E. Crowell, Nancy E. Jones, Namhee Lee, Sara Ann Schuchert, Lee Alexandra Wood List Price: $45.95 Amazon.com's Price: $41.29 You Save: $4.66 (10%) as of 11/08/2009 17:27 EST Used Price: $45.98 Third Party New Price: $38.26 Availability: Usually ships in 7 to 12 days This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 573 EAN: 9780805861419 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0805861416 Label: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 232 Publication Date: 2004-01 Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Studio: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Related Items: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language Acquisition (The Language Learning Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Cognitive Neuroscience Series) Mind & Context: Adult Second Language Acquisition The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differeces in Second Language Acquisition (Second Language Acquisition Research) see more Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This book constitutes a timely contribution to the existing literature by presenting a relatively comprehensive, neurobiological account of certain aspects of second language acquisition. It represents the collaborative efforts of members of the Neurobiology of Language Research Group in the Applied Linguistics and TESL Department at UCLA. Members of the group are trained in neurobiology and then use this knowledge to develop biological accounts of various aspects of applied linguistics. The volume avoids the corticocentric bias that characterizes many brain-language publications—both cortical and subcortical structures receive their appropriate attention. In addition, it demonstrates that enough is presently known about the brain to inform our conceptualizations of how humans acquire second languages, thus, it provides a refreshingly novel, highly integrative contribution to the (second) language acquisition literature. The goal of the research program was based on the need to draw more links between the neurobiological mechanisms and second language acquisition. As such, the book promotes a neurobiology of language that starts with the brain and moves to behavior. The fundamental insights presented should guide second language acquisition researchers for years to come. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - out standing text The authors provide a remarkable clear explanation of the executive and attentional control systems from a global brain paradigm. Inadvertently explaining ADHD with up-to-date neurobiological science, the acquisition of a second language has many parallels to AHDH. The book leave's aside the out-dated neuroscience of "attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity" for newer and more accurate data in explaining ADHD biology. SLA also matches the learning of compensatory strategies used in treating ADHD and other similar impairments. Rating: - Great subject, not so great research This is a fantastic subject to write a book about. Unfortunately, much of the research it uses is out of date and no longer applies. It also is very one-sided. The authors seem to have formed their own conclusions and found research to support them, without taking into consideration all the research that contradicts these conclusions. This wouldn't be such a bad thing if it weren't that they are stating these conclusions as fact instead of point of view. This is still a reasonably decent reference as it's difficult to find such a broad collection of research on this one narrow subject. It's just very misleading to any reader who has not done any previous studying of neurobiology.