Research on Both First- and Second-Language Learning Reveals

question 75

Multiple Choice

Research on both first- and second-language learning reveals

• A) a biologically based timeframe for optimum language development.
• B) that second-language processing is more lateralized in younger than in older learners.
• C) that language development is optimal after brain lateralization has occurred.
• D) that the right hemisphere of the brain is biased for language processing.

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Definitions:

Antiaromatic

Compounds that have a cyclic, planar arrangement of atoms with 4n electrons that destabilize the molecule.

Orbital

A mathematical formula that characterizes the wave-patterns of a single electron or an electron duo within an atom.

Aromatic

Refers to chemicals that contain benzene rings, or similar ring structures, which are stable and have distinctive smells.

Antiaromatic

A term describing cyclic compounds that are unstable due to conjugated pi electrons disrupting the molecule’s planarity or symmetry.