How Immersion Helps to Learn a Language
NY TIMES article
This study on immersion compared to classroom learning was great to know. The article's comparison highlighted how both groups remembered words, but the brain functions of the immersed learner were more similar to the Native speakers. It goes to show that learning a language goes far beyond memorizing words and dives into a deeper cultural setting. I am excited to learn this because hopefully when I go to Korea, I will learn even more much faster than I am now. The research for this must have been very extensive and I would love to learn more about the actual methods of the electroencephalography measuring brain processing. This shows the increase in technology and research advances that will hopefully help us in the future to comprehend what the best ways to learn are. I believe I remember Dr. Grove teaching us that after a certain age it is hard to develop certain muscles for speaking a different language. I wonder if research can be done to teach muscle memory for language dialect as well.
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