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Ebbinghaus forgetting curve and vocabulary teaching

Why we teach in lexical sets

Interesting practical book on education and neuroscience, but jumps too quickly to conclusions? eg See vitamins & exercise - worth researching further??? Probably bunk

Evidence for pedagogic sense in involving learners' knowledge of L1 to aid their acquisition of L2. Learners associate English letters with Japanese words as a mnemonic. Also, explicit differentiation of the two language systems' phonic systems seems to help better understanding of English in Japanese children.

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

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.

Wellcome Trust turns its attention, an coffers, to neuroeducation - 6 projects

Yeah! What she says! This article published Jan 2014 just about sums it up