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A Neuroscientific Perspective on Second-Language Learning and Academic Achievement.
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Hawson, Anne – Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue, 1996
Notes that little agreement exists as to which factors influencing academic outcomes for second-language learners are of primary importance. The study hypothesizes that second-language learners in immersion situations undergo an attention shift away from auditory system processing and towards visual information processing. (59 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Control, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
Paying Attention to Attention Allocation in Second-Language Learning: Some Insights into the Nature of Linguistic Thresholds.
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Hawson, Anne – Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue, 1997
Three threshold hypotheses proposed by Cummins (1976) and Diaz (1985) as explanations of data on the cognitive consequences of bilingualism are examined in depth and compared to one another. A neuroscientifically updated information-processing perspective on the interaction of second-language comprehension and visual-processing ability is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing