Reflect on the readings. How does this knowledge help you shape your language learning process?
How the Brain Handles Language helped me to understand different views on how brain works in language learning. I learned that our brains take feedbacks that they receive information from ears, the sense of touch, and the internal sensations generated by the movement of parts of the body. It encouraged me to plan out learning through listening, speaking and reading at the same time to stimulate the feedback in my brain when I study Turkish. Learning semantics and syntax helped me to understand that there are different types of words. Therefore, I applied the knowledge to increase the efficiency of learning Turkish vocabularies by differentiating words that are describing sounds and got meanings by promise among people. In addition, because words by themselves do not actually 'make sense' and sentences exist to enable us to 'make sense' of words (How Language Works, 2005), I will try to understand and memorize Turkish words in sentences (memorize vocabularies with example sentences).
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