ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2013
How relevant is social interaction in second language learning?
Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Teaching with social context in instructional video facilitates second language vocabulary learning.Heliyon · 2023Article
- LearningPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Students Sense of Belonging and Academic Performance via Online PBL: A Case Study of a University in Hong Kong during Quarantine.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- When Even a Robot Tutor Zooms: A Study of Embodiment, Attitudes, and Impressions.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
- A Comparative Psycholinguistic Study on the Subjective Feelings of Well-Being Outcomes of Foreign Language Learning in Older Adults From the Czech Republic and Poland.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The social brain of language: grounding second language learning in social interaction.NPJ science of learning · 2020Review
- Using second-person neuroscience to elucidate the mechanisms of social interaction.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2019Review
- Social Interaction Affects Neural Outcomes of Sign Language Learning As a Foreign Language in Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Play along: effects of music and social interaction on word learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Verbal language is the most widespread mode of human communication, and an intrinsically social activity. This claim is strengthened by evidence emerging from different fields, which clearly indicates that social interaction influences human communication, and more specifically, language learning. Indeed, research conducted with infants and children shows that interaction with a caregiver is necessary to acquire language. Further evidence on the influence of sociality on language comes from social and linguistic pathologies, in which deficits in social and linguistic abilities are tightly intertwined, as is the case for Autism, for example. However, studies on adult second language (L2) learning have been mostly focused on individualistic approaches, partly because of methodological constraints, especially of imaging methods. The question as to whether social interaction should be considered as a critical factor impacting upon adult language learning still remains underspecified. Here, we review evidence in support of the view that sociality plays a significant role in communication and language learning, in an attempt to emphasize factors that could facilitate this process in adult language learning. We suggest that sociality should be considered as a potentially influential factor in adult language learning and that future studies in this domain should explicitly target this factor.
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