SDLG105 Learning Journal #1

[cien zhang]

These three articles talk about learning languages in science and brain aspects. It is very interesting to know that for right handed people, left hemisphere is found to be dominant in analytical tasks, calculation and logical organizations while the right is dominant in perception and creativity. Moreover, tough slip is not random but explicable by reference to certain basic constraints. This article explains many phenomenons happened for a learner to learn a language and tries to use science knowledge to explain. The another two articles, which are discussing about meaning analysis, are more valuable for me to shape the language learning process. For example, one of the articles mentions that different language "parcel out" the word in different ways. In English, there is no single word representing mother's brother or mother's sister. But in Chinese, there are different words to express the notion of mother's brothers or sisters.  I am also interested in knowing whether Korean has the words to express this family relationships or not. In addition, the collocations idea in the third article is also interesting. In English, when we see the the blond, we will strong relate it to hair.According to the article, collocation differs greatly in languages and makes us difficult to master a foreign language. Therefore, I look forward to know the collocations in Korean and how they are different from that in English and Chinese.