[B-Greek] Re-wiring the English brain?

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 15:30:13 EST 2011


Shilrley egrapsas
> Yassas Marke!
> Re-wiring the English brain (or any brain) for a foreign language,
> particularly with adults, is a problem which those of us
> who teach Beginning Greek face over and over again.
...
> Drillling this way takes the average student about 2 weeks to get
> the brain re-wired or at least weaned from English word-order.

There is more than one meaning of 're-wired' going on here.
For example, a student can be told and may learn to hear that OY
and Y are distinct sounds. However, it may take many months before
the ears start to naturally distinguish those sounds, where one's ears
begin to attune to the emic structure of the new language. The
re-wiring of a brain--so that it uses the patterns of the new language--
takes hundreds of hours of usage. In that sense, a person might be
talking about re-wiring in the same sense as 'internalize'.
On the other hand, learning to recognize a particular structure or
distinction may be done relatively quickly and long before it is 're-wired'
in the brain.

ERRWSQE
IWANHS


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