Differential Analysis of Biological Information during the Learning of a Second Language and a Programming Language

In 2016, the "government curriculum guidelines" emphasized the importance of early introduction of English and programming education toward globalization and the internationalization of education. A considerable amount of research has been conducted on the similarities and teaching methods between second languages and programming languages. However, most of these studies are limited to evaluations by questionnaires. In this study, to clarify the difference in biometric information when learning English and programming languages, we defined similar problems for both languages and measured 18 types of biometric information. As a result, no significant difference was observed in the average values of any biometric information for similar problems between English and programming languages (for example, English reading comprehension problem and program reading comprehension problem). Therefore, we can say that there is a possibility that the know-how of English learning, which has a lot of research achievements, can be applied to programming learning.