*Request for information on combining physical exercice with cognitive learning of a language.
As I am learning to teach French to adolescents at High School (Voortgezet Onderwijs in the Netherlands), I would like to know more on combining body-exercises with cognitive skills.
As I have an education in teaching in both TaiChi (taiji) and Dance (Biodanza) I naturally want to use body movement to enhance the learning process in class. However I would like to substantiate my theory that physical exercice aids adolescents (age 12-16) in learning a language.
I came across the interesting research on Embodied Learning of Kontra (Kontra, C., Goldin‐Meadow, S., & Beilock, S. L. (2012). Embodied learning across the life span. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4(4), 731-739.)
I wonder if this subject has been researched by others.
Marieke Annink
Movement helps in the formation of neural connections in the brain, which improves the child's capacity to learn. The decade of the brain has enabled us to establish via study that exercise and play activities may increase cognitive connections and academic achievement.
Physical activity engages the brain, enhances cognitive function, and is associated with higher academic achievement, according to research after study (Donnelly & Lambourne, 2011). This suggests that any type of physical exercise, not only movement related to the content being studied, can assist kids intellectually.
I know Professor Jean-Rémi Lapaire (University of Bordeau) did some research on that topic. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Remi-Lapaire
Dear Dr. Marieke Annink ,
If we manage to "modulate/increase" the sensitivity of the "motor cortex", we observe that there is a selective improvement in the performance of a task that, in fact, requires understanding and memory of "codes of action", which is necessary for the precise processing of the "linguistic meanings" of these codes, because they end up providing sensory activity in the first-order cognitive functions that drive the "human motor system".
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Dear Dr Marieke Annink . See the following useful RG link: Article A combined movement and story-telling intervention enhances ...
Kindly see also the following very good RG link: Article The efficacy of singing in foreign-language learning
Also check please the following good link: https://learningcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/movement-and-learning/
I think education always act as an important factor for doing big things, for AIDS, check this video that may guide you :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgRD2qLpEN8
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