The document discusses language acquisition and the brain areas involved. It defines several language-related disorders like aphasia, agnosia, and apraxia. It also lists key areas of the brain involved in language like Broca's and Wernicke's areas. Finally, it recommends some movies that depict language acquisition and social competence development like Tarzan, Nell, and Nirgendwo in Afrika.

1. LANGUAGE AND BRAIN
Mr Boris Sáez

2. INTRODUCTION
How does apprenticeship occur?
What includes apprenticeship of a language?
How is a language developed?

3. BROCAS AREA WERNICKES AREA

4. DEFINITIONS
Agnosias - inability to recognize something
Anosagnosia - denial of paralysis.
Asymbolia - lack of understanding of meaning, cf. pain
Alexia - inability to read
Agraphia - inability to write; you may write but will not be able to read
that!
Aphasia - problems with speech understanding or production
Apraxia - inability to make skill movements

6. A. pituitary gland
B. cerebrum
C. skull
D. corpus callosum
E. thalamus
F. hypothalamus
G. pons
H. cerebellum
I. medulla
J. spinal cord
PERIPHERAL
SYSTEM

7. LATERALIZATION

9. LATERALIZATION
2-12 YEARS OF AGE

10. HELPFUL MOVIES THAT’LL HELP
UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
THE ISSUES OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE
TARZAN
NELL
NIRGENDWO IN AFRICA
GENIE

11. “If the human mind were simple
enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to
understand it."
Anonymous