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Course Objectives

The aim of this course is to explore the language areas in the brain, the neurological basis of our ability to learn languages, the linguistic information in the brains of people and the properties of its underlying network in order to understand the mechanisms and functions of learning. Brain-based learning is a comprehensive approach to instruction using current research from neuroscience. Brain-based education emphasizes how the brain learns naturally and is based on what we currently know about the actual structure and function of the human brain at varying developmental stages. Using the latest neural research, educational techniques that are brain friendly provide a biologically driven framework for creating effective instruction. The course will also include current knowledge about the acquisition and representation of two or more than two languages in the brain. Attention will be devoted to researches and their evidences from linguistics, neurology, aphasiology, and cognitive neuroscience. Methods of research will be introduced. At the end of the course students are expected to present a research review of a particular area of brain-based language learning/teaching.