Neurolinguistics and language learning to non-native learners of Arabic language

Abstract

It has been observed that neurolinguistics has a close relationship with the term psycholinguistics, which seeks to elucidate the cognitive mechanisms of language through the use of classical techniques of experimental psychology, and today psycholinguistic theories and neurolinguistics have contributed to enriching each other, and there is a great cooperation and overlap between the terms, Neurolinguistics is a branch of applied linguistics that controls the understanding, production and acquisition of language, it is also concerned with studying the neural mechanisms in the human brain and how it functions, this field is also centered in research on how the mind carries out processes that produce comprehensive language, This paper aims to shed light on neurolinguistics and the teaching of Arabic language to non-native speaking children, and its history through human civilization and its roles towards developing human language in the brain, and the relationship of language and thought, the paper also contains the following; an introduction, concept of neurolinguistics, the relationship between language and thought, scope of neurolinguistics, its theories history, the brain and its divisions, the roles of brain and the mind in teaching and learning.