GLOSARY #4
Johany Caceres
CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS:
Is a biological period of life when language can be acquired in an easy way.
LATERALIZATION:
Is the left hemisphere of the brain that contains the intellectual, logical and
analytic functions.
ROTE LEARNING:
Is a mechanistic learning that is not related to existing knowledge and
experience.
MEANINGFUL LEARNING:
Is the way you acquire and relate new items and experience to knowledge that
already exists.
LANGUAGE EGO:
Is the identity that a person develops in the reference to the language that he
or she speaks. It is part and parcel of self identity.
NATURAL APPROACH:
Is the goal of basic interpersonal communication skills, in everyday language
situations, conversations, radio, and more.