Sentences with phrase «from language acquisition»

Maternal responsiveness — the way mother (or other main caregiver) watches, understands and meets their child's needs — has been shown in study after study to be fundamentally important to everything from language acquisition, to social competence, to long term emotional well being.

Furthermore, a toddler may take a break from language acquisition to focus on a new skill.

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While some deliberately targeted, researched and made inroads into particular markets, firms more often did so via acquisitions or serendipitous routes ranging from a meeting at a trade show to an employee's personal contacts and language skills, or a chance sale over the Internet.

Research With the premise that science isn't perfect, but it's the best guide we've got, Zero to Five draws on scientific research and studies from experts such as Dimitri Christakis (screen time), Diana Baumrind (parenting styles), Adele Diamond (neuroscience and executive function), Carol Dweck (growth mindset), Alison Gopnik (child psychology), John Gottman (marriage and conflict resolution), Megan McClelland (executive function), Patricia Kuhl (language acquisition and brain development), Ellyn Satter (feeding children), Dan Siegel (emotions), Paul Torrance (creative thinking), Grover Whitehurst (literacy and reading comprehension), and more.

Other issues in children adopted from institutions and / or from traumatic backgrounds: The adoption community and related specialists have done extensive research and developed reams of information on language acquisition, developmental delays, learning differences, behavioral issues, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and other challenges that some of these children can face.

English does serve as a kind of de facto lingua franca in a number of international settings, but it is not, from what I have read, taught universally in South America, many African countries, or in parts of Asia, at least not at an early age for effective language acquisition (and I am unaware of any evidence that English is projected to take over in a reasonable period of time on its own; I have read that in Southeast Asia, for example, emphasis may even be shifting to Chinese).

The acquisition of language and the capacity for symbolic art may lie at the very heart of the extraordinary cognitive abilities that set us apart from the rest of creation

A joint group of researchers from Chuo University, Japan Women's University and Tohoku University has revealed that infants aged between 5 and 7 months hold the representation of color categories in their brain, even before the acquisition of language.

One of Kuhl's first important clues that social deficits might hinder language acquisition in autism came from her 2005 study of «Motherese» — the exaggerated, sing - song baby talk that parents instinctively shower on their children.

In addition, we investigated the relationship between asymmetry in intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity and language hemispheric dominance, including a potential effect of handedness on this relationship, thanks to an FMRI acquisition during language production from which an hemispheric functional lateralization index for language (HFLI) and a type of hemispheric dominance for language, namely leftward, ambilateral, or rightward, were derived for each individual.

Exposure to continuous white noise sabotages the development of the auditory region of the brain, which may ultimately impair hearing and language acquisition, according to researchers from the...

The authors argue visual literacy is especially important for primary school aged children, as they are making the transition from «viewing and speaking to formal language acquisition and incorporate the rules of speaking and writing, and from making marks and drawing to letters, language and text - based learning».

The proposed consolidation of the office of English - language acquisition is sparking strong pushback from advocates for English - learners, the fastest growing subgroup of...

Despite Huntington's thorough presentation of the evidence, I am not convinced that the research shows that the process of assimilation - in particular, the acquisition of language and improvements in student achievement - is proceeding any slower among second - and third - generation Mexican - Americans than it did among other immigrants from peasant and village and small - town backgrounds.

12 full hour lessons including resoruces; transcripts, activities, video clips to address spoken language and its development over time from child acquisition to social media and commentarie.

We know from research that building the literacy of kids in their first language is really the key thing that influences their acquisition of the English language and how they do academically.»

Faculty at the School of Education are engaged in research that looks at language acquisition and different types of literacy in a variety of contexts: from how children learn from one another, to how students form identities around language and literacy, to understanding the role that technology can play in fostering vocabulary acquisition.

Content - area teachers with a wide range of knowledge and comfort levels in supporting English learner students benefit from building their ability to facilitate language acquisition — and ELL teachers benefit from receiving training on evidence - based strategies for supporting language acquisition that also facilitate students» content learning.

The content of early reading / language arts standards and benchmarks should derive from a convergence of information from research conducted from a variety of perspectives, including research on reading acquisition among linguistically and culturally diverse children.

With a growing student population of English language learners from diverse backgrounds, the Houston Independent School District offers a range of language acquisition programs to serve Spanish - dominant English Language Learners in elementary school, including bilingual programs in the form of transitional late - exit, one - way developmental, and two - way bilingual immersion.

Literacy skills from the child's first language can translate to and facilitate the acquisition of English language literacy skills (August, Calderon, & Carlo, 2001).

Accountability for English Language Learners moves from Title III (the English - language acquisition section of the ESEA) to Title I (where everyone else's accountability is).

The ELL Collaborative brings together bilingual directors and language acquisition experts from across the region to share best practices to eliminate gaps for our ELL students.

My gravitation toward grant seeking began as a way to solve a challenge that may be familiar to other English language acquisition teachers: ELLs at higher levels of proficiency don't need to be pulled from their general education classrooms into specialized programs; they need their general education classrooms to incorporate project - based learning that focuses on authentic, relevant, content - related activities.

XM depository consists of more than 50,000 eBook titles available for Library acquisition ranging from all categories and genre, as well as languages.

Dr. Katie Slocombe from the University of York's Department of Psychology, said: «A special speech register, known as infant - directed speech, is thought to aid language acquisition and improve the way a human baby bonds with an adult.

MIAMI — September 2016 — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is proud to announce its major acquisition of over 400 language - based artworks from the world - renowned, Miami - based collection of Ruth and Marvin Sackner.

About Blog I'm an English language teacher who's very interested in language acquisition and ELT methodology (which will be evident from the title of this blog!)

A language - acquisition specialist with degrees from Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona, she's spent her entire career teaching and developing curricula — in Sunnyside Unified School District; at the University of Arizona, as a clinical assistant professor; in the Aurora, Colorado, public schools; and at the Discovery School in Cuernavaca, Mexico.