Pedagogically, foreign language teaching methods should focus on fortifing the anatomic segregation between languages while enhancing authenticity in the L2 learning environment. Clinically, identifying the most deficient language after brain damage should direct the language pathologist towards treating it with a special care offering a better prognosis for the weaknesses. This anatomical segregation could have important implications for the clinical and the teaching fields. The reported dissociations between L1 and L2 suggested their segregation at a cognitive level. A difference in the grammatical gender of nouns between TA and English was suggested as a possible factor affecting the patient’s performance as well. An account was found in category-specificity of semantic knowledge. L2) with L2 being the most affected after the neurodegenerative damage. Dissociation in performance was reported within the same linguistic system (L1/L2) as well as between both systems (L1 vs.
The case’s responses in L1 and L2 were qualitatively analysed and compared. A set of picture-naming tasks was administred to the patient to examine his naming aptitude in L1 and L2 for the semantic categories of : Letters, Numbers, Plants, Animals, Body parts, Colors and Clothes. The study reports on the case of an elderly Tunisian patient presenting with a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia caused by the onset of the Alzheimer disease. The main objective was to verify the status of the first acquired language (L1 Tunisian Arabic) against the status of a lately acquired foreign language (L2 English). His best-loved poems, from “The Collar” and “Jordan” to “The Altar” and “Easter Wings,” achieve a perfection of form and feeling, a rare luminosity, and a timeless metaphysical grandeur.This study was designed to examine the impact of progressive aphasia on the multilingual brain. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression of genuine feeling were the primary concerns of this poet, who admonished his readers to “dare to be true.” An Anglican priest who took his calling with deep seriousness, he brought to his work a religious reverence richly allied with a playful wit and with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to pattern poems, the shapes of which reveal their subjects. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection. George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets.
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