It is generally thought that words
are learnt through the left brain. But
in reality there is both left brain verbal learning and right brain verbal
learning. Learning a language becomes
far easier and perfect when the left and the right brain learning interlock. While a second language is taught to a child
in school the left brain learning methods are used. On the other hand children much younger
(between 0 to 3 years of age) use predominantly right brain learning and they
are able to learn and have a good command of their mother tongue within these
three years itself.
Infants don’t understand the meaning
at first but absorb large quantities of words into the right brain. Parallely the left brain links words to
images in the right brain and comprehends and records these. Thus the right-left brain interlocking
happens.
After six years of age, the left
brain functions more predominantly and it suppresses the effective functioning
of the right brain, thereby learning using both hemispheres of the brain
becomes difficult.
The left brain learning method is as
stated earlier to process from parts to the whole and is a successive and
sequential building-up process: it
learns consciously and is a method requiring comprehension and memorization.
The left brain has an ability to manage what it has learnt using the
prepositional learning method.
In contrast, the right brain does
not require comprehension and memorization: the absorption of information is
done unconsciously and in great quantities and the right brain uses its
appositional methods to manage incoming data and information in a holistic
manner. If appositional method is
included in the process of language learning, language mastery becomes a
cakewalk.
(Image from the web)
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