What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 08:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Centre for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa's Department of Learning Disabilities. 'The cognitive disparity between the two languages is similar to the difference between a native and a second language. This offers an explanation for the objective and day-to-day difficulties that confront Arabic-speaking students when attempting to learn to read the non-spoken language,' the researcher explains. The new study has been published in the Journal of Psychology Research and Behaviour Management...