Multilingualism in the Brain

Multilingualism is an omnipresent phenomenon in our modern society and since knowledge of multiple languages is becoming more and more of a necessity in order to successfully master everyday life, we can observe monolingualism becoming more of an exception than of a rule. In this work, I am focussing on the resource of human language, namely on the human brain, by doing a neurolinguistic state of the art analysis. I am pointing out the potentials, perspectives and also problems of neurolinguistic research, as well as give a practical input for language teachers (and also learners) in terms of how to make use of neurolinguistic knowledge.

Autorentext

Mag. Jasmin Mohr BA has always been especially interested in languages, which is why she became a teacher of English, French and German as a foreign/second language. Currently, she is teaching at a grammar school in Innsbruck, as well as at the University of Innsbruck. Her special field of interest besides English linguistics is didactics.