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  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Educational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Adolescence involves critical language and cognitive development, but how language experience impacts learning from spoken lessons is unclear.
  • Understanding how bilingualism influences brain activity during second language (L2) learning is crucial for educational strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate functional brain connectivity differences in Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual adolescents during an English science lesson.
  • To explore the relationship between functional connectivity, learning outcomes, and individual language backgrounds.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine brain activity in 38 adolescents (bilingual and monolingual).
  • Seed-based analyses focused on the left inferior frontal gyrus and posterior middle temporal gyrus during a naturalistic science video lesson in English.

Main Results:

  • Bilingual adolescents (L1-Spanish) learning in English exhibited widespread bilateral functional connectivity.
  • Monolingual adolescents (L1-English) showed mostly left-lateralized connectivity within core language regions.
  • Specific functional connectivity patterns correlated with better learning outcomes and with Spanish reading proficiency in bilinguals.

Conclusions:

  • Language background significantly influences brain network engagement during L2 learning from spoken content.
  • Adolescents' functional connectivity patterns during L2 learning reflect both language experience and cognitive control mechanisms.
  • Findings suggest distinct neural strategies for processing spoken information based on first language (L1) and second language (L2) proficiency.