Right/Left Brain and Language Acquisition?

Ok, so I'm spending spring break reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.  I've always wanted to read this book, and it's really fascinating.  Much of it discusses research from the last 15 years ago regarding the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

And it's led me to wonder, is there research regarding language acquisition and the hemispheres of the brain?  I know that language is primarily  left side, but is language acquisition all on the left?  When you consider one side is more analytical and the other synthesizes....  well, I'm just wondering if that's part of the trick to letting go of feeling the need to look up every darn word and realizing that the WHOLE sentence is the key and each phrase as it comes, not each little word and each little ending.

They say the analytical processing that the left brain does is slower than a computer, but that the ability to synthesize whole information--like a face and all its details--is something that the right side does with great efficiency.  And I'm wondering whether this is part of the learning process--students try to be nothing but analytical, and we teach them to be highly analytical because of the inflectional nature of the language--when speed of reading as well as comprehension can be increased if we could develop, I dunno, a more wholistic approach to a passage.

I try to do this, I try to model the importance of reading the whole sentence if not paragraph, of seeing the bigger picture and using metaphrasing/placeholding for the missing info.  This has clearly been more of an intuitive thing with me, and something that I've been very passionate about, but now I'm wondering whether there is any hard data on this from a scientific point of view.