This image (click for a larger version) represents one of the easily-demonstrated a phenomenon caused by lateralisation - the distribution of various brain functions between the two hemispheres.
Have you ever tried to ask these questions?
1. What is the origin and purpose of lateralisation?
2. Do all mammals have two hemspheres? And what about birds? Reptiles?
3. What happens when a certain brain centre is damaged?
Learn more about lateralisation HERE (simple basics)or HERE (focus on information processing, aiming at learning styles).
Test your hemisphere dominance (a simple, reasonably valid online test).
The functions of our brain - including learning and acquisition processes - can be observed only indirectly, through our actions. Therefore the world is flooded with various theories concerning learning... but some of them seem to be more empirically supported than the others. Krashen's and Terrel's Natural Approach belongs to them.
"Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill." Stephen Krashen
(Sounds nice, doesn't it?)
Basic summary of Krashen’s Hypotheses
A Summary of Stephen Krashen's "Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition" - brief
Krashen and Terrell’s “Natural Approach” summary
Lectures on Krashen’s Theories
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