Good question!
If we start talking about how NEUROLINGUISTICS STUDIES benefit teaching and learning, we will have a lot of things to say. As far as we know Neurolinguistics investigates "Brain activity and Brain damage", according to this, nowadays, it is easier for educators when they are teaching, to understand what are the problems, or difficulties that some of their students could present in their learning process, by recurring to neurolinguistics studies, theories and discoveries.
For instance, we can mention some very common brain disorders like:
Dyslexia
Disgraphia
Aphasia
Stuttering
Autism
All of these atypical languages developments have already been disovered and studied by Neurolinguistics, and for that reason in most if the causes, we can identify, what are the manifestations, the visual evidence of these problems and likewise the symptoms of each one of them, so Neurolinguistics have done a lot in research allowing the people who are in charge of the learning and teaching processes have the possibility to read, get informartion about the difficulties and at the same they can use strategies that have already proved in people with this kind of disabilities, in order to help them to learn and over come most of the language problems, and in this way to give a better option of education.
Hi Mariana,
ResponderEliminarNeurolinguistics has studied a lot brain disorders in order to find the answers of those issues that bind us in teaching and learning of our kids, as you mentioned too.
Also, it is pretty vital to know most of the studies to guide our learners in their disabilities, because we find many cases in our contexts and sometimes it is not easy to help them to overcome their difficulties if we are not aware of their needs. So,it's time to work hand in hand with our students for a better future.