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Can Neuroscience Help Us Do a Better Job of Teaching Music?
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Hodges, Donald A. – General Music Today, 2010
We are just at the beginning stages of applying neuroscientific findings to music teaching. A simple model of the learning cycle based on neuroscience is Sense [right arrow] Integrate [right arrow] Act (sometimes modified as Act [right arrow] Sense [right arrow] Integrate). Additional components can be added to the model, including such concepts…
Descriptors: Music Education, Neurological Organization, Brain, Learning Processes
Psycholinguistic Interference of Characters in Reading Chinese.
Yeh, Teh-ming – 1985
According to recent neurolinguistic theories and research, language and other analytic functions are located on the left side of the brain, while spatial and configurational abilities are located on the right side. However, there is some evidence that while learning a language requires the use of both hemispheres of the brain, the right hemisphere…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Chinese, Ideography, Language Processing
Child vs. Adult in Second Language Acquisition: Some Reflections.
Banu, Rahela – 1986
The popular view that children have an advantage in learning a second language has considerable support in research, although it is not uncontested. One approach proposes that the child possesses a unique capacity for language that the adult no longer has. Another view argues that the child's brain is more flexible. A third approach assumes that…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
Learning to Learn a Foreign Language. Principles of Second Language Acquisition: An Orientation for Foreign Language Teachers.
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed to accompany an orientation seminar for students concerning language learning processes and strategies and the design of their program includes materials for five sessions, in three sections. The first section covers language learning and acquisition in general and contains a survey of the participants' foreign language…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization, Interlanguage
Training to Teach a Foreign Language. Principles of Second Language Acquisition: An Orientation for Foreign Language Teachers. Notes for Trainers.
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed as a guide for trainers in a seminar for teachers concerning some of the central issues in contemporary foreign language teaching and learning presents notes on each of the five seminar sessions, including overall goals and goals for the prescribed session activity, time and procedural notes, and reading lists. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization
Training to Teach a Foreign Language. Principles of Second Language Acquisition: An Orientation for Foreign Language Teachers.
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed to accompany a seminar for teachers concerning some of the central issues in contemporary foreign language teaching and focusing on how adults go about acquiring language includes materials for five sessions, in three sections. The first section covers language learning and acquisition in general, and contains a survey of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization