| Título: | On the Relationship between Right- brain and Left- brain Dominance and Reading Comprehension Test Performance of Iranian EFL Learners |
| Autores: |
Hassan Soleimani; Payame Noor University, Tehran Fateme Sharifi Matin; Payame Noor University, Tehran |
| Fecha: | 2012-05-12 |
| Publicador: | BRAIN: Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: | Works in progress, Discussions |
| Tema: |
Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience psycholinguistics, brain hemisphere, left-brain, right-brain, left-brained, rightbrained, reading comprehension, interhemispheric processing. |
| Descripción: | A tremendous amount of works have been conducted by psycholinguistics to identify hemisphere processing during second/ foreign language learning, or in other words to investigate the role of the brain hemisphere dominance in language performance of learners. Most of these researches have focused on single words and word pairs (e.g., Anaki et al., 1998; Arzouan et. al., 2007; Faust & Mahal, 2007) or simple sentences (Rapp et al., 2007; Kacinik & Chiarello, 2007), and it has been discovered that there is an advantage of right hemisphere for metaphors and anadvantage of left hemisphere for literal text. But the present research was designed to study Iranian EFL learners' performance in different reading tasks, so there could be differences between the consequences of the former research and the results of the present study due to the context. Here left-brain and right-brain dominance was investigated in 60 individuals (20 right-handed and 10 left-handed male, 20 right-handed and 10 left-handed female) via the Edinburg Handedness Questionnaire (EHQ). The research results suggested that the right-handed learners who are supposed to be left-brain outperformed the left-handed ones; and regarding participant's gender, male learners outperformed female learners on reading comprehension test tasks. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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