Empirical Studies
Interhemispheric learning is said to enhance and accelerate (accelerated language learning) performance. It seems that so far there have only been few empirical studies of the effectiveness of interhemispheric foreign language learning. A study published in 2002 involved experiments in Germany with classes learning French as a third language. In six classes the students translated more than 60 new words from German into French after an interhemispheric learning period of 45 minutes, not counting spelling errors as mistakes. In another experiment published in 2003 with a learning period of one hour, the students translated more than 80 new words with a context from German into French.
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