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From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/05/26/right-brain-crucial-to-language-success/

Right Brain Crucial to Language Success
May 26, 2019

A new study, “Speech processing and plasticity in the right hemisphere predict variation in adult foreign language learning,” published in NeuroImage, focuses on the roles played by the brain’s left and right hemispheres in language acquisition. The findings could lead to instructional methods that potentially improve students’ success in learning a new language.

The brains of 24 students of were scanned before and after a month-long intensive Mandarin program. University of Delaware cognitive neuroscientist Zhenghan Qi was surprised by the results: “The left hemisphere is known as the language-learning part of the brain, but we found that it was the right hemisphere that determined the eventual success” in learning Mandarin.

Read the full summary at https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/05/26/right-brain-crucial-to-language-success/
The study is available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811919301752