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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Taming the brain to better teach: To Have and To Be!

THE ROLE OF THE SALIENCE NETWORK AND THE DEFAULT MODE NETWORK IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

  • Ivana Juric
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26034/cortica.2023.3792
Submitted
March 16, 2023
Published
2023-03-20

Abstract

The primary aim of this project was to apply the basic knowledge about the two brain networks, the SN and the DMN and their importance in the learning process to activate and maintain the students’ attention and motivation. The feedback I received in the evaluation in the 6.4 section suggests that the students are indeed motivated to participate in my classes. However, since there is no feedback concerning the attention, I cannot make inferences about it. One big limitation of this project is the questionnaire, which was too open and did not address the aspect of attention. Another limitation of this project is that I cannot compare the motivation and the attention at the beginning versus at the end of the project. As a result I cannot tell if the high motivation is indeed due to my teaching methods. Finally the time of the project was too short to make any meaningful inferences about the success of the teaching techniques, which is why I intend on continuing this project until the end of this school year, and repeat the questionnaire with more precise questions.

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