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    With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Harnessing Pattern Recognition in Second-Language Learners
    (Fakulta humanitných vied UMB, 2010) Dove, Michael; Štulrajterová, Milena
    The tendency of the human mind to seek out pattern and similarity is well documented and accepted. A clear example of this phenomenon is the variety of constellation systems found in various cultures. Looking up at the inherently random array of stars in the night sky, people have always tended to “connect the dots”, superimposing order and meaning upon the disorder, and often even anthropomorphizing it. Of course, the fully realized constellation systems we see today are the results of efforts carried out over many millennia by entire civilizations. Still, such systems remain rooted in individuals’ tendency to recognize patterns. This tendency is one of the definitive traits of the human mind, and should be acknowledged by teachers of foreign languages as a double-edge sword, with the capacity to both bolster the learning process and lead language learners astray, bolstering when they recognize legitimate similarities between languages and consistencies within a language itself, and leading them astray when they perceive false similarities or overextend a generalization. For languages, while being in a sense human-made systems, develop organically, and thus display a great deal of inconsistency to thwart the pattern-seeking learner.