Embodied bilingual language
This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the {{User sandbox}} template.
Overview
Embodied bilingual language refers to the role second language learning plays in embodied cognition. The way the body interacts with its environment influences they way a person thinks or creates mental images.
Embodied cognition happens automatically and in a person’s native tongue. However, embodied cognition can also take place automatically in language that was learned later in life, outside of a child’s critical period of learning a language. This idea formulates to embodied bilingual language, in which a second language can too intertwine cognition and physical body movements.
Embodied bilingual language, also known as L2 embodiment, is the idea that people mentally stimulate their sensations, actions, and emotions when speaking in a second language as with their first language. It is closely related to embodied cognition and embodied language processing, both of which only deal with native language thinking and speaking.
Theory
Motor Systems Involved in Embodied Bilingual Language
Motor systems in the brain that are involved with language are important for second language learning but are not as strong as for a native language. Second language motor systems call on and activate information from first language motor systems. This embodiment of the second language in addition to the first by the brain’s motor systems is automatic.
In addition to motor brain areas, somatosensory areas, which deal with touch and physical awareness, are also activated.