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Title: A Neurobiological Theory and Method of Language Acquisition
Author: Daniel Janik
Email: click here to access email
Homepage: http://drjanik.tripod.com
Degree Awarded: Bircham International University , Linguistics
Degree Date: 2003
Linguistic Subfield(s): Language Acquisition
Director(s): William Martin
Carmen Hurtado
Abstract:

A new theory of learning is posited, based on contemporary clinical and experimental neurobiological data on effective traumatic learning. Interesting linguistic exegeses of first and second language acquisition under such a theory are examined and their implications discussed. A list of methodological tenets is derived, applied and demonstrated in limited fashion in a traditional, educational, classroom setting. The neurobiological method is presented along with derivisional hypotheses that, with further research, might lend it further support and provide new avenues of insight into not only into the fundamental nature of first and especially second language acquisition, but learning and teaching in general.

Dr. Janik is a physician, board-certified in public health and preventive
medicine. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from the
University of Washington, a Master of Public Health degree from University
of California at Berkeley, and doctoral degrees in medicine (MD) from Loma
Linda University, California, and Education/Linguistics (PhD) from Bircham
International University, Madrid, Spain, European Union. A Fellow of both the American College of Preventive Medicine (FACPM) and the American
Association of Integrative Medicine (FAAIM), what began as a subspecialty
interest in psychological recovery from trauma quickly expanded into
exceptional learning with special focus on first and subsequent language
acquisition. He is currently TOEFL and Univeristy Studies Program Coordinator at Intercultural Communications College in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a Dean of Natural Sciences of Bircham International University.
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