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• Reader Language Acquisition

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• Which brain part is used for processing audio input and is responsible for language processing?

  Wernicke's Area

• What does  'Neurological Consideration of Hemispheric Lateralization' mean?

  Certain functions are lateralized in either the right or the left part of te brain.
  Language seems to be on the left. Lateralization maybe completed between the age of five and puberty.

• What does 'plasticity' have to do with an increasing age?

  Increasing age reduces the plasticity of the brain, i.e. other areas of the brain find it difficult to take over functions of other damaged parts of the brain.

• What is an 'Angular Gyrus'?

  Angular gyrus is responsible for visual and auditory stimuli and is crucial for reading and writing.

• Which man spoke of the Critical Period Hypothesis? And what does it say?

  Lenneberg
  
  Children have limited years to acquire L1 flawlessly. Human have a biological timetable. Children acquire a second language. After puberty brain maturation, affects the l2 learning

• At what age can kids no longer a L2 according to Hyltenstam? And how does he call this?

  At the age of six.
  
  Age of Onset

• What does the 'Age of Onset' tell us? 

  Around the age of six there seems to be an cut-off point for kids to achieve a native-like proficiency.

• What is meant by Parallel Distributed Processing or PDP?

  The linguistic performance may be the consequence of many levels of simultaneous interconnections in the brain. Rather than learning one by one.

• Hyltenstam has one Theory, what is it? What does it say?

  Connectionist Theory
  
  Children learn language by creating connections in the brain. They develop these connections through exposure to and use of language. E.g. bottle=> Milk => drink

• Which four stages of Learner Language Development are there?

  Stage of Random or Presystematic Errors
  Stage of Emergent Errors
  Stage of Systematic Errors
  Stage of Stabilization or Postsystematic Stage