Now Google has its own dictionary.
I'm not sure if anyone else caught this on NPR... I'm dying to read
Crystal's new book... I even noticed in publishing that some authors are
beginning to write in blog and text form, and kids are really taking to it!
This could be an interesting turn on the way we give and receive
information
Is technology stealing our collective soul?
Computer model "learning" language in a process akin to how babies learn
language
Busuu is a language-learning web site that combines traditional language instruction features with a social networking component.
"Vygotsky rejects the aphorism that “thinking is silent speech”.
Intelligence and Language have different roots. Intelligence is there, in
however limited a form, even among chimps, and is found among all the
peoples of the world in much the same degree and is exercised by
young kids before they can talk.
A Dramatic Reading of Adolescent Literature
J. Lea Smith and J. Daniel Herring
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and
see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and
studies the masters. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.
William Faulkner
To meet the challenge of attracting middle-level students to the literate
life, language arts educators focus instruction on process. This design
creates a learning environment where students, along with their teacher,
construct literacy as they participate in authentic acts of reading,
writing, speaking, and listening. The pivotal instructional components —
reading workshop and writing workshop — immerse the adolescent
learner in 1) regular chunks of time to write and read, 2) self-selection
of writing topics and reading materials, and 3) meaningful dialogue with
peers and teacher (Atwell, 1987). Within this context, a fire is kindled to
ignite adolescents to write during writing workshop and read during
reading workshop.
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helping ESL students learn through music. Music and language learning
Now Google has its own dictionary.
Is technology stealing our collective soul?
Computer model "learning" language in a process akin to how babies learn language
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