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Why We're All Rubbish at Teaching Vocabulary - 0 views

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    Ebbinghaus forgetting curve and vocabulary teaching
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Mama or dada? Research looks at what words are easiest for kids to learn - 0 views

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    Why we teach in lexical sets
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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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Pictorial mnemonics and sound contrasting yield more effective English teaching - 0 views

  • images they used linked the shapes of the alphabet letters with images of Japanese words that begin with those letters
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    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.
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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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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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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
Daniel Barber

Myths about how the brain works have no place in the classroom | Dr Hilary Leevers | Sc... - 4 views

  • potential impact on education is wide-ranging
  • natural sleep pattern
  • rigorous scientific evidence are surprisingly scarce
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    Yeah! What she says! This article published Jan 2014 just about sums it up
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