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.
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Word Spy - 0 views
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Online dictionary of new words and phrases with example citations for each term. You can search for new words by using the WordSpy's search engine or browse by category such as business, culture or technology. Read definitions and view the context those new words were commonly used in the media.
Language Teaching: A Practical approach by @Natalieburdett9 - 3 views
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"As I stood in the school hall, during an assembly on National Languages Day, I felt such pride, but equally astonishment at how the children had embraced the task of saying hello in as many languages as possible. I watched in amazement as the 34th child stood up in front of the school to share his knowledge of yet another greeting from a different country. I don't know whether it was the sheer volume of children or their confidence whilst standing in front of the school and speak a different language that struck me most, but whatever it was, made me reflect on how I had come to be in this moment."
Movies - 7 views
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ESL movie activities
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Thanks, Yuly, for sharing such valuable material to enhance ESL classes!!! Regards, Marisa
Education Week: Science Grows on Acquiring New Language - 6 views
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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.
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“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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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.
UNPO - OSCE Calls for Greater Language Rights - 0 views
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OSCE High Commissioner Knut Vollebaek called on states to protect language rights and said they were “a precondition for peace and stability.” States should not promote one language at the expense of another, he said in a press release. Vollebaek continued, “‘such thinking is harmful not just to minorities but also to majorities.
Transcribing Equipment - Free Digital Transcription Software - 0 views
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Works with speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking to automatically convert speech to text.
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Free: Express Scribe Transcription Playback Software Digital Transcription Audio Player Software Express Scribe is free professional audio player software for PC, Mac or Linux designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings.
The Gong Project - The Web Voice Communication Tool - 0 views
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free system for voice communication on the Web. It allows groups of people such as students and teachers to participate in discussion groups using their computers, using both synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous chat. It is commonly used by schools and universities for providing a 'voice board' for teaching purposes.
News: The Web of Babel - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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Some adventurous professors have used Twitter as a teaching tool for at least a few years. At a presentation at Educause in 2009, W. Gardner Campbell, director of the academy of teaching and learning at Baylor University, extolled the virtues of allowing students to pose questions to the professor and each other — an important part of the thinking and learning process — without having to raise their hands to do so immediately and aloud. And in November, a group of professors published a scientific paper suggesting that bringing Twitter into the learning process might boost student engagement and performance.
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But while Lomicka and her tech-forward peers are not advocating that every college go the way of Chapel Hill, they are finding out that some relatively novel teaching technologies that are used by academics of all stripes, such as Twitter and iTunes U, are particularly useful for teaching languages.
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At Emory University, language instructional content is far and away the biggest export of its public repository on iTunes U, where visitors from around the world have downloaded more than 10 million files since Emory opened the site in 2007.
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The Ten Week Journey - 3 views
How many times have I heard someone say, "I would love to learn another language." But next to none of those I have heard make such a statement are doing anything about it. A quote I recently cam...
Theatre of sleep - an anthology of literary dreams by Guido Almansi and Claude Béguin -0.1 Electronic version (html) - 0 views
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Inded. I'm marking them with these Diigo notes, and will be very grateful if others do the same.
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I probably left many mistakes
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Indeed. I am marking them with these Diigo comments, and will be very grateful if others do the same.
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And he enjoyed the possibility to write and rewrite and re-rewrite with it.
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Rephrase?
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This is an "0.1" version because electronic texts are far easier to amend than printed books, and so they must be. And this version will need to be: on the one hand, scanning and OCRing (see Formal Features below) is a stupendous possibility, but it is not totally reliable, and even if I proof-read the electronic text, I probably left many mistakes. On the other hand, I hope to be able in future to reinsert some of the texts under copyright for which I haven't obtained yet a renewal of the permissions given for the print edition (see Copyright and Content below). However, the deadline of the Google Book Search Settlement for asking Google to pull out their own, inacceptable, electronic version made it imperative to publish this one quickly.
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This electronic version of "Theatre of Sleep - Dreams in Literature " is multilingual, because it uses the original texts when they were in the public domain and the translation was copyrighted. It was made by scanning and OCRing the book, which left many mistakes even if I proofread the result of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition). I am correcting them in the Diigo comments, and would be very grateful to others who would do the same.
ErasmusPlus courses offered for teachers of modern languages, CLIL and other subjects. - 5 views
TELLConsult and partners offer a number of courses on CLIL methodology and the integration of educational technology in language education both for beginners and more experienced users. Topics incl...
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