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140
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Language & Linguistics","Education & Educational Research
This article starts with an overview tracing the history of the neuros
cientific study of language. It then surveys the three main issues tha
t have emerged from the neuroscience/second language acquisition (SLA)
interface: the neurofunctional differences that hold between primary
language acquisition (PLA) and SLA; the critical period issue; and the
purported role played by the right hemisphere (RH). In his concluding
remarks the author discusses the relevance of neuroscientific finding
s among nonbiological factors with particular reference for the learni
ng process to some of the modern instructional models. Needless to say
, we are only that the beginning of the expansion of knowledge about t
he 'mystery' of language acquisition.