Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, restarts and speech rate, according to research ...
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May 9, 2014
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Want to convince someone to do something? A new University of Michigan study has some intriguing insights drawn from how we speak.
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May 15, 2011
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I teach people how to teach math, and I've been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, I've met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma – a form of debilitating mental shutdown when ...
Education
Nov 1, 2018
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Researchers designing and testing the 'classroom of the future' have found that multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost skills in mathematics.
Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2012
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Psychologists have revealed some of the secrets of scoring a chart-topping, hit song.
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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A new literacy webcam coaching strategy, developed by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been shown to help struggling kindergarten and first-grade readers in rural classrooms keep pace with ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2013
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It's normal to experience some anxiety when speaking a second language. When paired with large class sizes and limited opportunities for practice during class time, however, this anxiety can limit a person's ability to perform ...
Education
Feb 21, 2019
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