As we saw
previously in the subject of Fundaments of Applied Linguistics, the Language
Acquisition refers to the cognitive process which a human can understand,
perceive, and comprehend language, this language later can be used to
communicate, using words and logical sentences to produce a communicative
process, the most of all language
processes are located on the Broca’s area of our brain, this area is located in
the left frontal lobe which is responsible for speech production and
articulation. Also, some of these processes are located in the Wernicke’s area,
in the left temporal lobe. This area is often associated with language
development and comprehension.
Having
this in mind, we can easily say that all the language acquisition process are
located on the left hemisphere of our brain, but we have to consider that the
left hemisphere also have handles reading, writing, logical thinking and
calculations process, that’s why it’s called the “logical” side of the brain,
on the other hand we have the right hemisphere who is responsible for the image
processing, spatial thinking. We can follow the popular belief that the left side
of the brain is logical, and the right side is creative.
Both sides
of the brain are connected via nerve fibers, in a healthy brain, the left side
and the right side communicate with each other, making multiple processes at
the same time. We must mention, the human brain is symmetrical, this makes that
the right cerebral hemisphere receives sensory input from and directs movement
on the left side of the body, while the left hemisphere governs corresponding
functions for the right side. In the knowledge of that, we can continue with
our hypothesis. We all know that “art” involves many disciplines, most of them
involve movement skills like drawing, painting, sculpture, among others. As we
must remember, the right hemisphere is responsible for spatial thinking, image
processing and all related to “creative”. Our hypothesis stands that people who
are highly involved with the artistic world tend to have a high level of
language acquisition because of the balance of their brain hemispheres.