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Does Learning a Second Language under Immersion Conditions Mandate a Shift towards Visual Processing of Information? Draft.
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Hawson, Anne – 1996
The cognitive aspect of second language learning, specifically by immersion method, is discussed from a biological perspective. The approach taken is that of "connectionism," a recently-developed theoretical and experimental approach to human cognition. It is argued that while general cognitive functioning is unaffected by language immersion,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Immersion Programs, Information Processing, Language Processing