![]() I think another way we can use top-down processing when learning a new language is by using our knowledge of our own language. Good job on your post! I had never thought about the different processes we use to learn a new language before reading your blog. Post navigation Previous post: ← Top-Down Processing Next post: Visions of Deception → This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Septemby Amanda Kathleen Gregory. Psych 256 Course Modules, Lesson 3: Perception. The bottom-up helps learn the language at first and then the second helps with learning more advanced with the basic knowledge you have after.Īdmin. In essence, you can see how bottom-up and top-down processing can help with things like learning a new language. This would be top-down processing because you’re using past knowledge to help instead of taking in information like bottom-up. When you listen to a new sentence and come across a word you don’t understand, you can use the words around to help figure out what the meaning of the new word is. (Lesson 3, 2017) When you’re learning a language and get a basic understanding of what each words mean. Top-down processing is more advanced than bottom-up in a sense that the learner has to have past knowledge to help infer what the new stimuli is. Speaking fluently will help the learner learn how the words are really spoken. It is advised to speak sentences naturally to people learning the new language instead of word for word to better help for the learner who is weak in connected speech. (Lesson 3, 2017) This is helpful to learn a new language because when you listen to new words it can help you process the meaning and nature of the word. Once you have the stimuli it converses to an action potential which is then transmitted to the brain. You can get the stimuli through listening, seeing, touch, smell, etc. ![]() Learning a new language uses bottom-up processing to help learn the difference between the new words learned and top-down processing to help guess the meanings of new words based on their current knowledge of the language.īottom-up processing is how the body takes information in from the environment and is sent through action potentials to the brain to be processed. Top-down and bottom-up processing comes hand in hand with almost everything you do in day to day life.
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