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Time to stop avoiding grammar rules | Education | Guardian Weekly - 0 views

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    Catherine Walter, one of grammar's most upstanding proponents, looks to be recycling tired old research and making grand statements with little hard evidence
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Shadowing in ELT - 0 views

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    Research in Shadowing technique
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Learning Styles Debunked: There is No Evidence Supporting Auditory and Visual Learning,... - 2 views

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    A metastudy of research on Learning Styles and the conclusions
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How many neurons make a human brain? Billions fewer than we thought | James Randerson |... - 0 views

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    Researchers found that the 100 billion neurons figure is yet another neuromyth (but not far off)
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Research, truths, difference, and butterfly wings. « Authentic Teaching - 1 views

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    About the problem of tracking what helps people learn... Willy Cardoso says: The problem is the constant search for a cause-effect relationships; something to overcome perhaps. Did the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?? We'll never know because, ultimately, causes can't be fully tracked; therefore, explanations of consequences are inevitably incomplete.
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Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching: Amazon.co.uk: Eric P. Jensen: Books - 0 views

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    Interesting practical book on education and neuroscience, but jumps too quickly to conclusions? eg See vitamins & exercise - worth researching further??? Probably bunk
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Researchers map brain areas vital to understanding language - 0 views

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    Using subjects with brain lesions, scienists are mapping cgnitive processes involved in decoding texts - top-down processing to you and me
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Medical Xpress: Research sheds new light on the hierarchy of the senses - 0 views

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    Occulocentrism evidence - Another nail in the coffin for LS. vision ranks first and hearing ranks in second place, followed by the subordinate senses of touch, taste and smell.
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Think twice, speak once: Bilinguals process both languages simultaneously - 1 views

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    Bilingual speakers can switch languages seamlessly, likely developing a higher level of mental flexibility than monolinguals, according to Penn State linguistic researchers.
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Speech motor brain regions are differentially recruited during perception of native and... - 1 views

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    Very promising research from point of view of classroom activities.
Daniel Barber

Is there a tape recorder in your head? How the brain stores and retrieves musical melod... - 1 views

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    Fascinating synthesis of research about musical memory with analogies with technology (tape recorders, etc). Embodied cognition, too, as auditory pathways seem to have been coopted from motor coordination. Musical recording = temporal event recorded in spacial way.
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New research to investigate if neuroscience can improve teaching and learning in schools - 1 views

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    Wellcome Trust turns its attention, an coffers, to neuroeducation - 6 projects
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marinova_todd_marshall_snow00.pdf - 0 views

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    Metastudy of the research looking at fundamental flaws in interpretation surrounding critical period hypothesis.
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Brain Research: Adolescents Learn More in Cooperative Groups | MiddleWeb - 0 views

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    Teens' brains
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Evidence Based EFL - 0 views

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    Excellent blog for Bad Science ELT! Greta on learning styles, NLP, etc
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The Marco Polo of Neuroscience - V.S Ramachandran - All In The Mind - ABC Radio Nationa... - 0 views

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    Podcast interview with top neuroscientist V.S Ramachandran
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Brain Rules: Brain development for parents, teachers and business leaders | Brain Rules | - 0 views

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    A wonderful site for lots of general info on the brain. A great place to start for the beginner!
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Does reading (and learning a language) require two brains? « Jeremy Harmer's ... - 1 views

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    Jeremy's enthusiastic 'reading' of cognitive research that suggests extensive reading for pleasure and intensive reading for study are physiologically different processes. He posits that extensive reading points to 'acquisition' rather than more conscious 'learning'
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Differences in Attainment and Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Me... - 3 views

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    Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Memory Capacity. Complex and hard-to-interpret data.
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Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology ... - 2 views

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    Some truth in learning styles? Research suggests self-described visual learners more likely to convert linguistically presented information into a visual mental representation.
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