| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study investigated neural mechanisms of acquiring second language (L2) from communicative social contexts, comparing with first-language (L1) translation-based learning. The following three major findings emerged. First, behaviorally, learning from social contexts showed better performance than L1 translation-based learning. Second, learning from social contexts recruited more brain areas associated with language communication. Third, higher proficiency learners recruited the motor, social cognition and memory-related areas including hippocampus during the initial stage of learning from social contexts. These findings suggest an importance of learning from social contexts in L2 acquisition.
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