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Barbara Lindsey

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

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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.
Claude Almansi

Listen Up: It's Radio for the Deaf - Dan Costa - PC Magazine- Jan 6 08 - 0 views

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Costa PCmagazine radio deaf captioning live innovate innovate_ideagora

shared by Claude Almansi on 25 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 25 Dec 08
     
    The systems works a lot like close captioning does for television. The company will piggy-back a data stream on the standard audio signal. The text can then be read on radio fitted with a display. The system will only work with digital broadcasts, but the company says an Internet-based solution is possible. Currently more than 1,500 radio stations are currently broadcasting in HD Radio in the United States.
James OReilly

About - LiveTwitting.com - 0 views

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  • organize and consolidate twitter coverage posts during live sessions
Claude Almansi

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Vote Yes on New Radio Technology During NPR's Live Captioned B... - 0 views

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Harris NPR radio captioning elections US

shared by Claude Almansi on 04 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 04 Dec 08
     
    While millions of U.S. citizens voted for national and local elections last week, some of the nation's deaf and hard of hearing citizens were casting important votes on the future of captioned radio
Claude Almansi

NPR News - Live Election Coverage Radio Captioning - 0 views

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NPR Radio captioning US elections

shared by Claude Almansi on 04 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 04 Dec 08
     
    The captioned coverage has ended, thank you for your participating in this demonstration of captioned radio
Andrea Henderson

les fiches d'analyse- Resto Exki: Belgique - 0 views

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food pyramid french menus nutrition

shared by Andrea Henderson on 05 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Andrea Henderson on 05 Aug 08
     
    L'analyse nutritionnelle de chacune de nos recettes a été calculée par le \nCIRIHA. Il vous suffit de choisir la catégorie de produit puis le produit en \nparticulier.\n\nEn cliquant sur « fiche produit » vous verrez l'analyse de ce produit. En \ncliquant sur « ajouter » ce produit s'ajoute à votre \nmenu, sélectionnez alors un ou plusieurs autres produits, cliquez sur « ajouter » et vous verrez la pyramide totale pour votre menu. \nPour supprimer un produit il suffit de cocher la case et de cliquer sur « supprimer
  • Andrea Henderson on 05 Aug 08
     
    French teachers, this is a great authentic tool for healthy living. I visited this restaurant in Belgium and the menu is online too. The visual analysis of the nutritional values of the food here is really interesting!
eflclassroom 2.0

English Everywhere - Live Forum - Chatroll - 0 views

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shared by eflclassroom 2.0 on 29 Aug 08 - Cached
  • eflclassroom 2.0 on 29 Aug 08
     
    English learners , teachers and any English speakers can chat on any topic and make the world that much smaller by sharing the English language and interests.
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