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Beniko Mason, EdD, is professor emerita at Shitennoji University Junior College in Osaka, Japan. She first began her Extensive Reading (ER) program in 1984 at a vocational school in Osaka, Japan based on the Input (Reading) Hypothesis (Krashen, 1981, 1982, 1985). 
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A team of researchers has conducted the first study of how baby and adult brains interact during natural play, and they found measurable connections in their neural activity. In other words, baby and adult brain activity rose and fell together as they shared toys and eye contact.
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Teaching grammar in isolation is not only ineffective, it can actually make student writing worse. So when students make mistakes, what should teachers do?
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This month we published Language Learning and Teaching in a Multilingual World by Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes, Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes, Julie McAllister, Malory Leclère and Grégory Miras. In this post the authors give us some advice for teaching multilingual learners.Teaching a language or content in a multilingual classroom (or any type of learning environment, such as telecollaboration or…
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Research from India shows the buffering effect of bilingualism even extends to the illiterate. Via Christine Manara
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The New York Times wrote yesterday in Beyond Black and White, New Force Reshapes South The states with the highest growth in the Latino population over the last decade are in the South, which is al... Via Loredana Carson
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September 29, 2013 11:06 AM
Contains a map of the new immigration growth centers in the US.
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Kim Potowski is Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the Spanish heritage languag
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Dr. Gerard was born in Los Angeles into a four-generation household who spoke several languages daily. His parents spoke five each, his grandparents an
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TEDx is an international community that organizes TED-style events anywhere and everywhere -- celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to
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Using a triangle, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein explains how reality is shaped by the words we use. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, roula haj-ismail
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Even though you’re not fluent in different languages, you may be able to recognise words in others. In German for water is ‘wasser’, in Dutch it's 'water' and in Serbian ‘voda’. Similar sounds and letters are used to form the word across languages. Via Wildcat2030
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How is it that we learn to speak and think in language so easily? Philosophers have argued about whether or not we have innate ideas. Whether we are born knowing things, as Plato believed, or rather, as John Locke and other empiricists argued, the mind is a blank slate on which experience writes. Noam Chomsky, gave a twist to this debate in the 1960s.
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Julia Torres writes: "Our students are some of the most curious and passionate readers I’ve ever met when provided with the right support, conditions, time, and encouragement. I have said it before and will say again that no child loves reading like one who has been denied access to great books, time to enjoy them and reading role models in the form of connections to authors and readers who look like them and share their lived experiences. Via Mary Reilley Clark
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February 3, 2020 1:42 PM
A powerful post on why genrefication helps bring students labeled "reluctant readers" back to the library and back to reading! Julia describes the process of analyzing her collection, getting input from students, and the moving and labeling books.
As we approach the end of our first year of genrefied fiction, I know it's worth all the work! Our students feel more confident that they can find books on their own, they've identified themselves as readers of specific genres, and they are recommending more books to other students.
Julia had the same question I did about LGBTQIA books: do we as she says, "ghettoize" them in their own section, or put them in romance, etc? I decided to label each book that has any LGBTQIA characters with that label in the catalog, but shelved them in whatever genre fit. That way students who might be leery of approaching a shelf with a label can search the catalog and find them. I saw firsthand this year the relief on one student's face when he didn't have to advertise his reading to others (especially his family). I also saw perhaps a glimmer of understanding on another student's face when he sneered, "Where are all the gay romance books?" and I pointed to realistic fiction and said, "Over there with all the romance books, because...it's romance."
And thanks to Julia for all the links she provided! I found a new to me resource, Yes! magazine, that has some great articles for our social justice book club.
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When analyzing data, educators should include students’ identities and culture for a fuller picture of how they are doing.
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Researchers Pam Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer found that students remember more via taking notes longhand rather than on a laptop. It has to do with what happens when you're forced to slow down.
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July 30, 2013 10:55 AM
An excellent example of Language Policy in action. Need to follow the story for results over the next decade to see if the decision to offer classes in the native Zulu language (isiZuu) continues.
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Nelson Mandela's first language is Xhosa. While not a perfect human being, he has arguably been one of the world's most influential leaders over the past several decades. What message does it send ... Via Loredana Carson
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December 8, 2013 4:40 PM
Language policy shapes education policy. If Xhosa and Zulu are not important to the national interests they will not be taught in the schools. This sends the wrong message to native speakers of these languages. It will also eventually relegate these language to a less than status.
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In a small village in Alsace, two teachers invite the parents of their pupils to come on Saturday mornings to present their languages and cultures. In th
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Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems
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Alexa is a children's book author having written, illustrated, and self-published her first picture book, "Hannah's Hats", when she was a Freshman at NYU
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From nose to knee and red to round, the sounds humans use to construct basic words are similar around the world
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Why Do We Write? Language merely reflects our way of trying to make sense of the world. - Frank Smith Frank Smith (1982) says 'writing touches every part of our lives'. One of the first reasons we write is because it is a tool for communication in culture. It gives us the ability to share… Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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