Unlike other subjects, foreign languages are usually not taught by the usual trusted teachers of primary school children but by visiting specialists. This changes the social emotional context of the learning and results in less successful outcomes.

For a review of the evidence, google my book "Australian LOTE: Achieving Broad and Deep Competence in Languages at School".

For a resource that solves the problem by enabling class teachers to "normalize" early foreign language education, try "Talking to the Whole Wide World".

Sorry that is Jensen (1998), forgot the n!

Jense, Teaching with the Brain in Mind has valuable information on advances in brain-based research. I got a Master's in Education, Specializing in Instructional Technology from Grand Canyon University in 2005 and went straight into a PhD program at Walden U. I have carried on the work of my mentor, Dr. Wood, fredbernardwood.org, and am writing grants to fund research and dissertation in Education & Leadership, Self-Designed. I have the answers in MOM'SOS or Science of Open systems Learning Centers with a Design by TEAMS for a new paradigm in quantum physics, mutable universe realities that restore music, dance and art to the center of cooperative learning and inter-generational learning centers patterned on mastery ,that grow "bushy" brains as more dendrites form when learned helplessness is elminated by eliminating hate itself from all social venues including internet and education itself. When we work together as TEAMS with choice and freedom, then feedback creates journeys of happy voyagers on Ships of Discovery with the child at the helm and the teacher as navigator and guide to safe harbors.
I am an independent producer with a college level film school in motion to create a College of Synthesis online as an information=sharing technique to preserve Native crafts and music, as well as natural places.

Thanks for having Dr. Davidson's video on your site. This is really vital information for teachers to hear and practice throughout a child's academic career. I can attest to the anxiety and working memory connection with the students I teach.

So if behavior is more successful at changing the brain and then the brain further supports the new behavior, does that mean that people can affect their sexual orientation by will and does it mean that children raised in an environment of homosexuality will be more prone to homosexuality? Just wondering if this applies to what your talk is about.

wow! sounds pretty nice and interesting! I've never heard before about Heart-Brain Connection, but now I see it's cool and acute! keep on doing!

Yea! My brain is still changing and for the better! Wow! So when a student demonstrates positive behavior choices, then, their brain has changed! If a teacher uses active listening, calms a child, day after day from whatever environmental ravages (external or internal) that child will experience a physical change in their brain. Teaching is an awesome responsibility. lela