Brain responses before and after intensive second language learning: proficiency based changes and first language background effects in adult learners.

Brain responses before and after intensive second language learning: proficiency based changes and first language background effects in adult learners.

This longitudinal study tracked the neuro-cognitive changes associated with second language (L2) grammar learning in adults in order to investigate how L2 processing is shaped by a learner's first language (L1) background and L2 proficiency. Previous studies using event-related potentials (ERPs...

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Main Authors: Erin Jacquelyn White, Fred Genesee, Karsten Steinhauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3530537?pdf=render

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