著者

萩原 裕子

出版者

一般社団法人大学英語教育学会

雑誌

JACET中部支部紀要 (ISSN:18815375)

巻号頁・発行日

no.10, pp.1-10, 2012-12-20

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The expectations of English language education in Japan have never been so high during the last few decades. To facilitate the effective learning and communication through English language, we must understand the basic mechanisms of brain development and language learning. In this invited article, we first explain the up-to-date information on the relationship between brain development and language acquisition and processing. Then, some of the results of our brain-based cohort study of elementary school children are briefly shown. It is emphasized that interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative technologies such as multichannel Event-related potentials and near infrared spectroscopy are effective to uncover the language functions in the children's developing brain. We hope that such effort may ultimately offer an insight into the effective English teaching/learning for schoolteachers and policy makers.