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Lara Cowell

How the English Language is Holding Kids Back - 3 views

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    The Spelling Society speculates that English may just be the world's most irregularly spelled language. Masha Bell, the vice chair of the English Spelling Society and author of the book Understanding English Spelling, analyzed the 7,000 most common English words and found that 60 percent of them had one or more unpredictably used letters. As there's no systematic way to learn to read or write modern English-people have to memorize the spelling of thousands of individual words, file them away in their mental databases, and retrieve them when needed--English-speaking children typically needed about three years to master the basics of reading and writing, whereas their counterparts in most European countries needed a year or less. Moreover, English-speaking children then spend years progressing through different reading levels and mastering the spelling of more and more words. That means it typically takes English-speaking children at least 10 years to become moderately proficient spellers-memorizing about 400 new words per year-and because they forget and have to revise many of the spellings they've previously learned, "learning to spell is a never-ending chore."
dominiquehicks15

My View: Why language study should be part of your college experience - 0 views

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    I can relate and I completely agree.
madiendo15

Texting Improves Children's Spelling Skills - 0 views

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    Short article about another study done that proved texting actually helps the development of children's spelling skills and IQ level.
nagbayani16

Music and Language - 1 views

Studies show that children who learn music at a young age may find it easier to learn a language.

sworrall16

Create Your Own Language, for Credit - 0 views

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    1. What do you say to embarrass a polar bear? 2. How might an underwater society write? 3. Can a creature without teeth say "tooth"? 4. How many verbs for "to pray" does an angel need? These are some of the questions students have pondered in "Invented Languages" at Stephen F.
danielota16

Does Listening to Music While Doing Homework Affect Your Grade in School? - 0 views

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    The effects of listening to music while studying are mixed and depend upon the type of music you listen to as well as the degree to which it distracts you.
anonymous

Neighborhoods influence use of African American Vernacular English, Stanford research shows - 0 views

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    This article talks about how the usage of African American Vernacular English, or AAVE can be influenced based on location. This "bidialectal competence - the ability to speak two different dialects - potentially makes them less subject to dialect discrimination on both educational and economic fronts." This is due to AAVE being commonly associated with being of lower class or intelligence.
etsuruda16

Learn 1,000 words in a new language urges campaign - BBC News - 0 views

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    This campaign, a part of Speak to The Future, aims to urge people to learn at least 1,000 new foreign words because of a decrease in multilingualism throughout the UK. These 1,000 words would allow for simple conversations and are believed to help improve social diversity and increase economic opportunities.
ablume17

Why it makes sense for children to learn in the language they know best - 1 views

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    Students in South Africa are thought to be at a disadvantage since they switch from learning in their native language to learning in english. Researchers, however, believe that it is more advantageous to students to learn in the language in which they feel most comfortable. Switching between the mother tongue at home and English at school is shown to be a struggle for most children. Since the simplicity of the mother tongue has no ties to english, the children are basically learning two different languages at once, trying to apply the two to one another.
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    Research has proved repeatedly that children undoubtedly achieve much better when they start schooling in a language linked to one they can already use quite well. Using a familiar language for schooling is a big part of such success, which is why the late South African educationalist Neville Alexander advocated for mother tongue based-bilingual education.
Lara Cowell

Why learn a foreign language? Benefits of bilingualism - 1 views

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    Learning a foreign language has many more benefits than you would think. This article highlights many of the cognitive benefits associated with learning a foreign language.
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    This article gives a rundown on 7 cognitive advantages of bilingualism: 1. You become smarter: speaking a foreign language improves the functionality of your brain by challenging it to recognise, negotiate meaning, and communicate in different language systems. 2. You build multitasking skills. 3. You stave off Alzheimer's and dementia. 4. Your memory improves. 5. You become more perceptive. 6. Your decision-making skills improve. 7. You improve your first language (L1)
Lara Cowell

Raising a Truly Bilingual Child - The New York Times - 1 views

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    The key takeaways: 1. Ensuring rich, socially-contextualized language exposure in both languages. Pediatricians advise non-English-speaking parents to read aloud and sing and tell stories and speak with their children in their native languages, so the children get that rich and complex language exposure, along with sophisticated content and information, rather than the more limited exposure you get from someone speaking a language in which the speaker is not entirely comfortable. 2. Exposure has to be person-to-person; screen time doesn't count for learning language in young children - even one language - though kids can learn content and vocabulary from educational screen time later on. 3. It does take longer to acquire two languages than one, says Dr. Erika Hoff, a developmental psychologist who specializes in early language development. "A child who is learning two languages will have a smaller vocabulary in each than a child who is only learning one; there are only so many hours in the day, and you're either hearing English or Spanish," Dr. Hoff said. The children will be fine, though, she said. They may mix the languages, but that doesn't indicate confusion. "Adult bilinguals mix their languages all the time; it's a sign of language ability," she said. 4. If exposed to the target languages at a younger age, children generally will sound more nativelike. On the other hand, older children may learn more easily. Gigliana Melzi, a developmental psychologist and associate professor of applied psychology, states, "The younger you are, the more head start you have," she said. "The older you are, the more efficient learner you are, you have a first language you can use as a bootstrap."
cgoo15

Bilingual Education Promotes Psychology, Diversity - 1 views

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    There are several benefits of learning a new language, the latest being it promotes a better understanding (and acceptance of) psychology and diversity. The study, published in Developmental Science, tested a total of 48 study 5- and 6-year-olds who were either monolingual, simultaneous bilingual (learning two languages at once), and sequential bilingual (learning one language, then another).
Yeseul Do

Are musicians better language learners? - 1 views

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    Today's economic environment demands that our children become the very best they can be. A lot of demands are placed upon us as parents, and whether we like it or not, we need to help our children navigate their way in today's fast-paced world and build their skills for the future.
Lara Cowell

You Still Need Your Brain - 0 views

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    Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, notes that while Google is good at finding information, the brain beats it in two essential ways. 1. Context: Champions of Google underestimate how much the meaning of words and sentences changes with context. With the right knowledge in memory, your brain deftly puts words in context. 2. Speed Quick access is supposed to be a great advantage of using the internet. Students have always been able to look up the quadratic equation rather than memorize it, but opening a new browser tab takes moments, not the minutes required to locate the right page in the right book. Yet "moments" is still much slower than the brain operates. That's why the National Mathematics Advisory Panel listed "quick and effortless recall of facts" as one essential of math education. Speed matters for reading, too. Researchers report that readers need to know at least 95 percent of the words in a text for comfortable absorption. Pausing to find a word definition is disruptive. Good readers have reliable, speedy connections among the brain representations of spelling, sound and meaning. Speed matters because it allows other important work - for example, puzzling out the meaning of phrases - to proceed. Using knowledge in the head is also self-sustaining, whereas using knowledge from the internet is not. Every time you retrieve information from memory, it becomes a bit easier to find it the next time.
chasemizoguchi17

Does Music Really Help You Concentrate? - 2 views

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    This article talks about how music could actually increase productivity. It states that everyone listens to music, whether it be while driving, or doing work, studying, or even reading. It talks about how there two attention systems, one for the conscious and one for the unconscious and how the music falls into the unconscious. Also the study showed that the type of music mattered more towards productivity outcome.
rachelu17

The Human: Principles of Social Interactions - 0 views

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    This article talks about how the history of social psychology has contributed scientific evidence to help us understand human interactions. Social psychology has been influenced by theorists and researchers throughout history, including Gordon Allport, Kurt Lewin, and Norman Triplett. Research ranges in all types of social settings such as the workplace, educational institutions, society, in the family, etc. It has been found that the way people interact with each other depends on attractiveness, familiarity, associations, perseverance bias, and self-fulfilling prophecies. People belong to various groups whether they choose to or not, and these groups are based on affiliations with others. Group cohesion, connectedness, and belonging are all important things that influence our wellbeing and how we choose to treat others.
Lara Cowell

Language Revival: Learning Okinawan helps preserve culture and identity - 3 views

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    Article talks about an adult Okinawan-language class in Hawaii. Okinawan, also known as Uchinaaguchi, is an endangered language--it fell into disuse due to Japanese colonization--hence few native speakers of the language remain. I've posted the text of the article below, as you've got to be a Star-Advertiser subscriber to see the full page: POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 27, 2013 StarAdvertiser.com Learning Okinawan helps preserve culture and identity, an instructor says By Steven Mark In a classroom for preschoolers, a group of adults is trying to revive a language that is foreign to their ear but not to their heart. The language is Okinawan, or "Uchinaaguchi," as it is pronounced in the language itself. The class at Jikoen Hongwanji Mission in Kalihi, as informal as it is, might just be the beginning of a cultural revival thousands of miles to the east of the source. At least that is the hope of Eric Wada, one of the course instructors. "For us, it's the importance of connecting (language) to identity," said Wada, who studied performing arts in Okinawa and is now the artistic director of an Okinawan performing arts group, Ukwanshin Kabudan. "Without the language, you really don't have identity as a people." Okinawa is the name given to a prefecture of Japan, but it was originally the name of the main island of an archipelago known as the Ryukyu Islands that lies about midway between Japan and Taiwan in the East China Sea. For centuries, the Ryukyu kingdom maintained a degree of independence from other East Asian nations. As a result, distinctive cultural practices evolved, from graceful and meditative dance to the martial art called karate and the poetic language that sounds like a blend of Japanese and Korean. The islands were officially annexed by Japan in 1879. The 20th century saw the World War II battle of Okinawa, which claimed more than a quarter of the island's population, the subsequent placement of U.S. military bases and the return of the islands to
jessicawilson18

Singing and music as aids to language development and its relevance for children with down syndrome - Down Syndrome Education Online - 1 views

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    Music is such a powerful tool for children, whether it be singing, playing an instrument, or just grooving along to the beat. There are so many types of songs (repetition, recognition, action, imaginative, etc.) that it reaches out to all types of learners and helps develop their language abilities as well! This article explores how music can really help people with down syndrome!
Jessica Chang

Bilingualism Good for the Brain - 6 views

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    Bilingual education is controversial in the world today but so is its value. While bilinguals with Alzheimer's retained brain function longer than monolinguals, the cost of bilingualism is having a smaller vocabulary in each language. The thing about the bilingual brain is that knowing more than one language and knowing when to use each rewires your brain completely, giving those people certain advantages and maybe some disadvantages.
lmukaigawa19

The best age to learn a second language | The Independent - 2 views

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    According to science and psychology, the easiest time to learn a second language is during childhood. This is because the brain at that age is a sponge for absorbing new information. Also children are more eager to learn than adults and they have more time for it. In general, all learning becomes harder with age.
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