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Claude Almansi

ADWAS in Times Square - YouTube - May 14, 2012 by ADWASChannel - 1 views

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ADWAS sign language ASL PSA violence

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  • Claude Almansi on 17 May 12
     
    On May 14, 2012 a 15-second video presented in American Sign Language will appear on the CBS Super Screen at Times Square, where more than 300,000 pedestrians traffic daily. This is possibly the first video placement by a Deaf-run agency at Times Square, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. This public service announcement is produced by Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services and underwritten by Convo Communications. ADWAS wants to thank Convo for making this momentous event possible!
Lauren Rosen

Lead with Languages - 9 views

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languages advocacy presentations CLP

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  • Lauren Rosen on 06 Dec 13
     
    Video to promote making the learning of languages a national priority, where we recognize in other countries learning another languages is already a part of the curriculum and where it is important to know other languages to succeed economically, diplomatically and in our careers.
Barbara Lindsey

Education Week: Science Grows on Acquiring New Language - 6 views

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language learning brain research advocacy

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  • For example, when babies born to native-English-speaking parents played three times a week during that window with a native-Mandarin-speaking tutor, at 12 months, they had progressed in their ability to recognize both English and Mandarin sounds, rather than starting to retrench in the non-native language. By contrast, children exposed only to audio or video recordings of native speakers showed no change in their language trajectory. Brain-imaging of the same children backed up the results of test-based measures of language specialization.
  • The research may not immediately translate into a new language arts curriculum, but it has already deepened the evidence for something most educators believe instinctively: Social engagement, particularly with speakers of multiple languages, is critical to language learning.
  • “The key to that series of studies is exposure and live interactions with native speakers,” Ms. Lebedeva said. “The interactions need to be naturalistic: eye contact, gestures, exaggerated phonemes.”
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  • “Human brains are wired to learn best in social interactions, whether that learning is about language or problem-solving or emotion,” Ms. Lebedeva said, “but language is such a ubiquitous human behavior that studying it gives us an example of how more general learning takes place.”
  • at the science-oriented Ultimate Block Party held in New York City this month, children of different backgrounds played games in which they were required to sort toys either by shape or color, based on a rule indicated by changing flashcards. A child sorting blue and yellow ducks and trucks by shape, say, might suddenly have to switch to sorting them by color. The field games exemplified research findings that bilingual children have greater cognitive flexibility than monolingual children. That is, they can adapt better than monolingual children to changes in rules—What criteria do I use to sort?—and close out mental distractions—It doesn’t matter that some blue items are ducks and some are trucks.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 26 Oct 10
     
    researchers long thought the window for learning a new language shrinks rapidly after age 7 and closes almost entirely after puberty. Yet interdisciplinary research conducted over the past five years at the University of Washington, Pennsylvania State University, and other colleges suggest that the time frame may be more flexible than first thought and that students who learn additional languages become more adaptable in other types of learning, too.
Lauren Rosen

World Language Careers | Ohio Department of Education - 2 views

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advocacy careers language BER

shared by Lauren Rosen on 15 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 15 Jan 16
     
    A downloadable list of careers that benefit from employees having a 2nd language and a number of videos on the topic as well
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