News tagged with language teaching

Applying enhanced virtuality to language learning

Merging the real world with its mirror in a virtual world so that students can be immersed in a hybrid learning environment that permits improved language teaching: that is the objective of scientists at the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Language intervention provides educational benefits for preschool children

A pre-school language intervention programme can significantly improve the educational lives of children with poorly developed speech and language skills, according to new research by psychologists at the University of York.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children 'increasingly unlikely' to learn a modern language

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are increasingly unlikely to leave school with even the most basic knowledge of modern languages despite Government claims to the contrary, an independent study has found.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Familiar and newly learned words are processed by the same neural networks in the brain

Our vocabulary continues to grow and expand even in adulthood. Just ten years ago, the word 'blog' did not yet exist - and now we no longer remember when we heard this word for the first time or when we learned its meaning. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0