Sentences with phrase «leading language researchers»

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This known asymmetry has led researchers to investigate whether a similar left - hemispheric bias could be found in other animals, as a possible evolutionary precursor of human language.

This has led other researchers and companies to look at converting sign language into text using cameras.

Culture Accordingly, the researchers discussed how an oversized brain led to culture, a product of thinking and social learning facilitated by language, creativity and innovation.

Universal child care that starts as early as age one improves language skills for young children, especially those from low - income families, according to a study of Norway's child care system by a team of researchers led by Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Eric Dearing.

«Data - driven techniques are mostly limited to finding correlations rather than causation... Future analyses are moving beyond words to capturing less ambiguous meanings from language,» explains lead researcher Andy Schwartz.

A further understanding of cognitive development in young students, Orosco said, both by researchers and educators working with English - language learners, could ultimately lead to better reading instruction for all students, improved measurement processes and fewer students unnecessarily being placed in special education classes.

«This study is an important scratch on the surface of the genetics of language impairment,» says Mabel Rice, a leading researcher of language disorders and genetics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, have discovered that a language's grammatical structures change more quickly over time than vocabulary, overturning a long - held assumption in the field.

This new work — led by Harvard and MIT Ph.D. student Rachel Romeo, with coauthors at both of those institutions and the University of Pennsylvania — builds on what researchers have long known about the connections between «home language environment» and children's cognitive development, literacy and language growth, and verbal ability.

As he speculates in «Injecting Charter School Best Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English at home and in their communities, increasing reading scores might be especially difficult.

The journal featured the partnership in two blog posts, one by REL Northwest researchers Havala Hanson and Jennifer Esswein, who describe the urgent conditions that led to the research - practice partnership's formation, and another by Homedale School District Superintendent Rob Sauer, who writes about the challenges facing Idaho's rural districts and how data and evidence are needed to create a common language for collaborators as they look for solutions.

Even some ardent whole language proponents such as Wolfe and Poynor (2001) acknowledge the decline of whole language, but attribute this decline to a campaign led by researchers, the popular media, and the religious right.

The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.