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A New Way To Help Babies Learn Language: Study
Parents Magazine - Michela Tindera
• Pinterest While a baby's first words aren't typically spoken until around 12 months of age, new research from Rutgers University shows that through specific auditory training, a baby's brain development
Is There a Downside to Early Potty Training? A New Study Says...
Parents Magazine - Michela Tindera
• Pinterest When it comes to potty training, sometimes earlier isn't always better, new research shows. According to a small new study published in Research and Reports on Urology, researchers at Wake
Can Agave Nectar Ease a Cough?
Parents Magazine - Michela Tindera
One pediatric study of natural remedies for Baby's cough looked at how agave nectar compared to honey and a placebo. Pinterest It can be tough to treat your young child's nighttime cough. It's dangerous
How arbitrary is language? English words structured to help kids learn
sciencedaily.com - Lancaster University
Words in the English language are structured to help children learn, according to research. Words like "woof" accurately represent the sound of a dog …
Babies silently practise speaking way before they talk
Wired UK - Liat Clark
Institute for Learning Babies' brains process and practise languages months and months before they ever utter their first word. This is the conclusion …
ESL Teaching Resources - Theory and Research
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Lexical density
stackexchange.com
I'm trying to work out the lexical density of a spoken text. My problem is with contractions that include a primary auxiliary verb as a main lexical …
Language Acquisition and Language Learning‏‎
icaltefl.com - By Jenny Scott
While need or motivation can be strong impulses in second language learning, they do not influence language acquisition. The question is do we as …
Bilingual children 'show advantage' in noisy classrooms
BBC News - By Judith Burns
Children fluent in two languages learn better in noisy classrooms than pupils who speak just one, research suggests. Bilingual and monolingual pupils at a Cambridge primary school were asked to "identify
What autism can teach us about psychoanalysis
The Guardian - Henry Bond
It is probably impossible to watch Sophie Robert's extraordinary compelling documentary The Wall: Psychoanalysis Put to the Test for Autism, and not be outraged. Robert's brilliantly crafted polemic, in
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. “If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve,” Debbie Millman counseled in one
The Science of Dreams and Why We Have Nightmares
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
The psychology of our built-in nocturnal therapy. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind,” Freud argued in his influential treatise The
How Repetition Enchants the Brain and the Psychology of Why We Love It in Music
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“Music takes place in time, but repetition beguilingly makes it knowable in the way of something outside of time.” “The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism,” Haruki
What Books Do for the Human Spirit: The Four Psychological Functions of Great Literature
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves.” The question of what reading does for the human soul is an eternal one and its answer largely ineffable, but this hasn’t stopped
Can children with language impairments learn two languages?
hanen.org
By Lauren Lowry Hanen Certified Speech-Language Pathologist Parents of children with language impairments sometimes wonder about the impact of a second …
Raising Bilingual Children: The First Five Steps to Success
omniglot.com
by Christina Bosemark, founder of the Multilingual Children's Association When I was growing up, the only way to raise a truly international child was …
Benefits Only Bilinguals Would Know
lifehack.org
Okay, so your cubicle is boring, you haven’t had a good date in what seems like decades and every day is the “same old, same old” with nothing …
The Benefits of Being Bilingual
WIRED - Jonah Lehrer
Samuel Beckett, born in a suburb of Dublin in 1906, was a native English speaker. However, in 1946 Beckett decided that he would begin writing …
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What Kids' Drawings Say About Their Intelligence
TIME - Alexandra Sifferlin
A large and long-term new study shows the way a 4-year-old draws a person not only says something about their level of intelligence as a toddler but is also predictive of their intelligence 10 years down
The Best Language for Math
The Wall Street Journal. - Sue Shellenbarger
Confusing English Number Words Are Linked to Weaker Skills By Sue Shellenbarger Sue Shellenbarger The Wall Street Journal Biography Sue.Shellenbarger@wsj.com What's the best language for learning math?
Why Language Learning is Important Infographic | Language Learning | Pinterest | Language, Learning and Learning spanish
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Bilingualism over the lifespan
medicalxpress.com
It's a scene that plays out every day in Montreal. On the bus, in schools, in the office and at home, conversations weave seamlessly back and forth …
The Languages you Speak to Your Bilingual Child
psychologytoday.com - Francois Grosjean Ph.D.
Post written by François Grosjean. Lauren is a little Dutch-English bilingual girl whom Belgian psycholinguist Annick De Houwer tells us about in one …
Learning a New Language Stimulates Same Pleasure Centres in the Brain as Sex and Chocolate
International Business Times (GB) - Priya Joshi
Learning a new language apparently has certain unexpected benefits. Researchers found that the process of learning a language and acquiring a wider …
Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree
mentalfloss.com - BY Arika Okrent
When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various …
EdCentral
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'Children should start learning languages at age three'
The Telegraph - By Catherine Ford
Our European neighbours shame us by their ability to converse in English. The Government would like that to be a thing of the past. So would Catherine Ford For years it was thought that teaching foreign
How language can affect the way we think
ted.com - Jessica Gross
Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to save money?) might be an economist, but he wants to talk about language. For …

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A New Way To Help Babies Learn Language: Study

Is There a Downside to Early Potty Training? A New Study Says...

Can Agave Nectar Ease a Cough?

How arbitrary is language? English words structured to help kids learn

Babies silently practise speaking way before they talk

ESL Teaching Resources - Theory and Research

Lexical density

Language Acquisition and Language Learning‏‎

Bilingual children 'show advantage' in noisy classrooms

What autism can teach us about psychoanalysis

Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives

The Science of Dreams and Why We Have Nightmares

How Repetition Enchants the Brain and the Psychology of Why We Love It in Music

What Books Do for the Human Spirit: The Four Psychological Functions of Great Literature

Can children with language impairments learn two languages?

Raising Bilingual Children: The First Five Steps to Success

Benefits Only Bilinguals Would Know

The Benefits of Being Bilingual

What Kids' Drawings Say About Their Intelligence

The Best Language for Math

Why Language Learning is Important Infographic | Language Learning | Pinterest | Language, Learning and Learning spanish

Bilingualism over the lifespan

The Languages you Speak to Your Bilingual Child

Learning a New Language Stimulates Same Pleasure Centres in the Brain as Sex and Chocolate

Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree

EdCentral

'Children should start learning languages at age three'

How language can affect the way we think