INTERCONNECTION OF THE FEATURES OF INTERHEMISPHERAL ASYMMETRYAND MECHANISMS OF SPEECH IN LATE BILINGUALS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of domestic and foreign scientists’ theoretical ideas and research data on the peculiarities of the brain interhemispheric asymmetry functioning during the process of foreign languages learning and their correlation with the mechanisms of late bilinguals’ speech. It is found that many authors agree on the activation of the subdominant hemisphere at the initial stage of a foreign language learning. Accordingly, during this period, a foreign language linguistic reality is processed through a slightly different strategy, which is not peculiar to the student. At the same time the key speech mechanism components remain themselves unchanged: probabilistic forecasting and language code switching. The author comes to the conclusion that language forecasting should be specially trained as the ability to put forward hypotheses (on the bases of a native language), and in a foreign language — the ability to confirm the hypotheses at all language levels. However, the style of work with right-brain and left-brain trainees should be somewhat different. The author puts forward a hypothesis about the expediency of studying the learning potential of bilingual auditory material perception in a dichotic mode.

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