Allison Kipta's Library tagged language →  View Popular, Search in Google

Professor Ellen Bialystok and co-authors reviewed recent studies using behavioural and neuroimaging methods to examine the effects of bilingualism on cognition across the lifespan. Their review builds on earlier evidence of its benefits for children’s cognitive development. The study, published March 29 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, revealed some surprising results. The researchers found that bilingualism protects against cognitive decline by boosting cognitive reserve and delaying the onset of dementia symptoms. The review also suggests that the increasing diversity in world populations may have an unexpected positive impact on the resiliency of the adult brain.

science physiology language cognitive_development

Learn English like a native speaker!! Understand how to write a resume to get the job you want!!! Writing assignments can be fun, and easy!!! Understand how to use correct punctuation and the punctuation rules, so you don't have to guess!! Improve your writing skills!! Learn & improve your English skills, it's free and everyone can learn English!!!

[and use exclamation points!!!!!]

english language learning esl

This web site is for non-native speakers of English who want to write in English for academic purposes.  The material in this site is aimed toward high intermediate or advanced English learners who have never taken a formal English writing course and whose TOEFL score is about 500 or more. 

english language learning esl

A website of free online business and social English vocabulary exercises for both learners of English and native speakers who want to improve their use of business and social vocabulary.

english language learning esl

Open English World provides free online lessons to help you learn English and speak English more fluently. We invite you to use our free activities to practice your conversation, vocabulary, pronunciation, business English, and idioms.

english language learning esl

english language learning esl

english language learning esl

1000 pages of interactive grammar, listening, vocabulary and reading exercises. Full English grammar guide and phrasal verbs section with definitions, examples and tests. Games, puzzles and more.

english language learning

Welcome to EasyEnglish.com! Test yourself online in English free! You'll receive answers and marks for each test. Plus we give you easy explanations, and suggest what you need to study. "Question of the Day" gives you a new test every time, or you can choose from "Free English Test" or "Free Personalized Test" at any level. Visit Easy English every day and your English will improve much faster. English is easy at EasyEnglish.com!

english language learning esl

english language learning esl

SmashCards were designed by university experts with one idea in mind - to make learning as intuitive as posssible. SmashCards are meant to be touched, moved and seen. The learner always hears the correct pronunciation, and always sees the correct images, as she builds English words and sentences. SmashCards are part of a combined learning system that includes interactive stories and lesson activities designed to provide context and to keep the child learning.

learning flashcards language

language resources web2.0 esl technology

MIT’s Deb Roy wants to understand how children learn language. Until now, scientists lacked the technology to implement the intense observation, data gathering, and analysis they need to properly investigate this question. With help from his research team at the MIT Media Lab, computing tools from Apple, and offering himself and his family as test subjects, Roy is developing that technology.

children speech language visualizations

The MIT Media Lab's Human Speechome Project has collected more than 80,000 hours of video and 120,000 hours of audio recordings documenting the first two years of a child's life. The result is a massive database of parent-child interactions, illustrated in this graphic. Click on any word below to see when the child learned it and how often the child and his parents used it.

children speech language visualizations

"Teaching ESL by way of conversation, a common practice in face-face-instruction, is becoming highly motivating to ESL students in e-learning. I hear from teachers I work with and from my own teaching experience, ESL students show high motivation for conversational English in e-learning despite its current drawbacks. With Internet-based instruction only a decade old and emerging e-learning technologies currently experimented among which audio-video have just started catching up, there are challenges: slow video streaming, at times fuzzy and interrupted frames due to insufficient Internet data transfer speed, students' low-end computers, language deficiency and insufficient training to communicate via audio and video. However, for all these drawbacks in e-learning, even static web pages with conversational content are attracting ESL students today. Considering this observation on ESL students' high motivation for conversational instruction, ESL teachers can use conversation to teach language mechanics effectively and, most importantly, help to increase opportunities for the student to speak English. Below you will find a framework for conversational ESL instruction. This framework entails two parts: an overview and a dialog. The overview part is a short paragraph for the ESL student to grasp the topic. The conversation part consists of a dialog written for two speakers, the student and teacher. To make the most of this conversation, the student and teacher role play alternately in the online class. I have found the following pedagogical benefits of teaching by way of conversation in e-learning."

english language learning esl

"Social language learning has become incredibly popular on the web as it has transcended language barriers in previously impossible ways. For example, right now someone in Argentina could be waiting to teach you Spanish in exchange for your English skills. Or maybe your native language is Spanish and you want to learn Mandarin Chinese in exchange for that knowledge - there's someone out there for that as well! In fact, chances are there are hundreds or even thousands of potential language partners with whom you can symbiotically achieve your collective language learning goals. These exchanges are manifested as instant messages, phone calls over the web (VoIP), organic groups created by members, collectively built resources of free and open language-learning web content, etc."

language web2.0

"EACH September Jacqueline Harding prepares a classroom presentation on the common writing mistakes she sees in her students' work. Ms. Harding, an eighth-grade English teacher at Viking Middle School in Guernee, Ill., scribbles the words that have plagued generations of schoolchildren across her whiteboard: There. Their. They're. Your. You're. To. Too. Two. Its. It's. This September, she has added a new list: u, r, ur, b4, wuz, cuz, 2. When she asked her students how many of them used shortcuts like these in their writing, Ms. Harding said, she was not surprised when most of them raised their hands. This, after all, is their online lingua franca: English adapted for the spitfire conversational style of Internet instant messaging."

literacy language education writing texting

"The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research. Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that schools and libraries should consider embracing texting and tweeting as a means of engagement rather than simply outlawing it. "I think if you're an educator or librarian looking for new ways of to reach out to teens and tweens, then texting is one possibility," Tilley said. "Over 70 percent of teens have a cell phone, so I think it's a viable alternate means of engaging with that age group.""

literacy language education writing texting

"For a while, you couldn't go a month without seeing yet another story in some newspaper with certain teachers complaining that students were letting "txting" speak appear in their writing -- leaving the teachers worried about the English skills of today's youth. However, as those stories became more popular, people began to notice they were almost all anecdotal. In fact, some people began to point out that all of this writing by kids could actually help them have a better command of the language than in times past, when many kids did almost no writing at all. Finally, in 2003, someone did some research and found that, indeed, kids were actually much more comfortable writing than in the past."

literacy language education writing texting

"If renowned author Ernest Hemingway could write a full story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”), then teachers and librarians should encourage their students to use Twitter and text messages as part of their literacy lessons. So says Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who believes the character constraint of Twitter could help students learn to be more inventive in their schoolwork."

literacy language education writing texting