Learning a new language is something many people struggle with, but there are many ways people could learn a new language. Any foreign learner who is trying to learn a new language should learn to have a growth mindset, accept challenges, and maintain a healthy mindset. Willing to have a positive attitude and accept change will help people achieve any goal set forth. It takes a person who wants to learn have the ability to accept challenges no matter what they might be. Having a growth mindset, giving up is never an option. Keeping one’s brain healthy by doing various things like getting plenty of rest, having a balance diet, and challenging their brain helps them learn better.
In the article “Mindsets,” Carol Dweck writes about the Growth
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Some pathways have tiny gaps that are called synapse. When people want to learn something new a signal is now sent to the synapse that allow us to learn something different. When individuals do something over and over again, it becomes permanent in our brain. In order to learn something new, a person must go through a trial and error stage, in which the video compares it as building a bridge; when someone first starts something new and want to get better at it, they must keep going and do it over and over again until it builds muscle memory. When I started to learn English I notice that it was complicated because it was something new. I knew that I really wanted to learn English so I challenge myself every week that I will learn up to ten words in two days. I started off with learning my alphabets, reading simple flash cards that had words like; me, my, he, she, can, is and etc. I than got myself a tutor that helped me after school because in school I was in a program called ESL that help me learned it faster than I expected. When an individual wants to learn something new, like learning a new language a person has to accept the challenges that come along with it. Along with accepting challenges people have to turn their weakness into strength, otherwise a person may not fully develop their learning capabilities. Challenges …show more content…
The brain is approximately 3lbs, it controls everything we do. The left side of the brain controls the right side, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the brain. When we first learn something new our neurons send messages that helps keeps everything we learn permanent. According to the learn pod it is proven that we learn best when we happier, maintain a good a healthy diet and drinking plenty of water helps the brain to function well. It is also important that we challenge our brain by learning different methods of learning and staying positive. The brain is like a boss it controls everything including our short and long term memory. When I first started learning English at first it was far the hardest thing I had ever done in my entire life. I had to challenge my brain over and over again by various study activities like making flash cards, reading a lot of books, puzzle, and etc. It is important that a person maintain a healthy mindset when they want to learn something new or keep information in their brain, to take care of the brain a person should drink plenty of water, a person needs protein, carbohydrate, and maintain the right amount of diet. It is also important that a person gets plenty of rest and exercise daily. When we keep our brain healthy it is likely that we will learn faster and keep everything in our
Language, whether oral, or written is the primary type of interaction we have. In “Learn! Learn!” by Hugo Martinez-Serros, the author stress the importance of language and education in society rather than your social class. He shows the importance of language to us by outlining the everyday life of a hard working Mexican that lingers in developing his authorship, and really likes to criticize the writing of the higher class enlightened priest. He lives in the south side of Chicago, and in his spare time he loves to study and critic others writings for improvement.
Learning is one of the things that help us survive. Darwin taught us that learning is the survival mechanism that we use to survive in our ever-changing environments. Our brains are designed to learn. They are plastic, meaning they can adapt, change and grow. In our brains there are neurotransmitters, and neurotrophins. They both have a role in turning different circuits on off, and getting different signals to different parts of our bodies. Some neurotrophins are called factory, and one of those is BDNF, or brain-derived neurotrophic factor. This chemical has been called, fertilizer for neurons. Exercise has been shown to increase BDNF leve...
The human brain is a very complex organ which controls everything that makes us who we are. The function of the brain is broken down into two hemispheres, each responsible for different aspects of the thought process. The left and right hemispheres impact learning by directly controlling the process in which information is analyzed utilizing each hemispheres specific function.
In the United States, it is important for a person to speak English fluently because it is the official language in America and everybody communicates in English. Many people believe that English should be the only language in America and that sometimes people may face prejudice when they speak English with an accent. For some parents, the fear of prejudice makes them decided not to teach their children their native tongue. On the other hand, there are many other reasons why some parents want to teach their children their native tongue. Gabriela Kuntz explains in My Spanish Standoff why she did not allow her children to speak Spanish at home. Kuntz’s explanations are acceptable, but some research studies reveal that most young children can learn two or more languages. Also, many researchers say that children can learn a second language faster than adults.
Fundamentally, development of the brain is an immense determinant of someone’s ability to learn. Therefore, the success of most learning patterns will be premised upon this notion of brain development. Other aspects of learning involves practice, teaching methods applied, the complexity of the concepts being taught and so forth. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of these other methods is dependent upon the brain of the learner. People have different levels of brain development. This manifests itself in the different abilities of learning. Some are poor learners whereas others learn pretty fast (Iba & Miyake, 2010).
In our world, learning is more available to people. New knowledge is important for every person who like to gain information. This kind of people have their brain changing. The plasticity is responsible about that fact in the brain. The plasticity gives the brain the ability to grow up day after day. New language, dance and other activities help the brain to develop. Also, the plasticity had no limits according to time and age. We will discover the good effects of learning on brain plasticity.
Learning a language is quite possibly one of the most difficult and time- consuming endeavors a person could ever undertake. Therefore, it comes as no surprise, that a limited number of second languages are taught in schools across the western world, and languages are sometimes failed to be passed on to children growing up in a different country than their parents did. Even in Canada, an officially bilingual country, only 15% of Canadians speak English and one unofficial language (Statistics Canada 2008) and in America, only 21% of the population is versed in two languages (Logan, 2003). It has become apparent that there is a need for Canadians and Americans to learn a second language. For a country to survive, it needs to rely on other countries as there is no one country that can produce within it’s borders all the means to meet the needs of it’s people. Furthermore, with the threat of international terrorism, the economic crisis and environmental ruin looming above countries all over the world, governments and organizations need to work together to come up with solutions. These cross culture collaborations would not be possible without the ability of even a few people present to speak each other’s languages. Conversely, by remaining monolingual, skills and knowledge will become concentrated only in certain countries and as the transfer of knowledge will cease the rate of human advancement will slow. This report intends to discuss the interpersonal and personal benefits of learning a second language, and investigate different ways of learning. To accomplish this, I have conducted secondary research into the interpersonal and personal benefits of learning another language. These particular areas of research were cho...
Our brain and its learning styles have always been in a constant state of change and thus it’s ever evolving. The brain is divided into two major areas, the left and the right brain; they both impact our learning abilities differently. Today, a closer look at the fundamental question of the left brain vs. the right brain and how this impacts our overall learning will be explained. According to (Scannell & Burnett, 2010) the term learning can be broken down as “the sum of patterns utilized by an individual.” There are two sides of the brain which directly impact learning and create different ways of receiving, storing and responding to information which ultimately impacts our overall learning process.
In fact, it is important to understand that: "The brain continues to be a new frontier. Our old way of schooling is fading fast as our understanding of the brain increases. Everything you do uses your brain, and everything at school involves students' brains.
In a globalized world where change is inevitable, learning a second language is a great benefit. Although it takes time and dedication, learning a new language has its benefits. Language is what defines a group of people. It is what separates them because of how they speak and also on how the language is developed. In today’s society, there are over 6,000 languages in particular, and learning one will surprisingly help you in life. Rita Mae Brown once said, Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” Language is what separates people because so many people speak different languages, and people can tell where other people are from just by their accents or the language they speak.
Language acquisition is a topic that has generated various theories throughout time. These theories have given us some sort of idea as to how kids can acquire language. Chomsky, for example, has categorized humans as innate, we basically do not learn language through our caregivers (parents, grandparents, day care personnel) but we are born with the capability to utter words and create sentences on our own since birth. The environment we are exposed to, to the input caregivers have in a child’s developmental stage of language, may or may not have an impact in the acquisition. So then, how on Earth does a child acquire language? Let us explore some areas experts have studied children obtaining language at such a young age,
Throughout history, many schools of thought have examined humans’ ability to understand and utilize language. Ancient philosophers, like Plato, used their observations to pose notions of language acquisition and early Indian scholars began the first debates between nativists and behaviorists (Stanford Encyclopedia). These early thinkers only touched upon this human process, as our modern day tests have shown that there are specific stages to acquiring language, varying ideas on whether language is innate or learned, and a definitive, but rarely studied, window for any human to acquire language.
As the global communities migrate from their native home lands to new countries and regions, the need to learn a new language becomes an imminent requirement. Learning second language for an individual with not back ground to the language can be a serious proposition which can results in seriously straining the individual. This makes it very important to select a learning strategy very carefully to prevent complicating the learning process and also one which will help speed up the entire learning process (Bitchener 2007). With this in mind there are three main approaches linked to learning a 2nd language namely the behaviourist, Halliday’s and Chomsky’s approaches. Each of these adopts different learning theories but that all promote
As time goes by and as the global community develops, the world grows more and more international, making second or third language acquisition become necessary to the majority. With the growing importance of multiple language ability, more and more parents think of bilingual or multilingual education, which means acquisitions of two or more languages, for their kids. In fact, we do have many reasons showing why multilingual education is important and beneficial, such as aspects of interpersonal relationship, employment, brain health, and so on.
Language skills are the skill a child develops when communicating, expressing and understanding feelings. During the first years of age, a child is like a sponge listening and absorbing all the vocabulary that he or she listens from the parents or any other family member. Parents talk to their child in their primary language. The children as they listen to the parents talking begin to form and understand vocabulary. Reading is also an important factor in developing language skills. Reading with a child daily can help the children develop a sense of vocabulary and start identifying different emotions or images that are part of the world they live in. Based on how these two children communicated with me, I could possibly identify that they were