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Could native language shape musical ability?
According to a new study, speakers of tonal and non-tonal languages may perceive music differently.
Research conducted by The Music Lab - a collaborative department from The University of Auckland and Yale University, revealed that...
Listen before Repeating
When someone hears a concept or a person’s name for the first time, the most common way of learning this new word is to repeat it out loud. However, previous studies have found contradictory...
Bilinguals React More Emotionally to Mother Tongue
A recent study by researchers in Poland has examined differences in how bilingual people respond to emotionally charged words in different languages.
The study, carried out by a team led by Marcin Naranowicz from Adam...
Study Shows Brain’s Innate Capacity for Reading
The human brain is predisposed to visualizing words, even before individuals acquire literacy, according to a team of researchers at Ohio State University.
Their paper, published in Scientific Reports,...
Sanskrit Code Cracked by PhD Student
A 2500 year old grammatical problem has finally been solved by PhD student Rishi Rajpopat at the University of Cambridge. A grammatical rule by “the father of linguistics” Pāṇini has puzzled experts for centuries,...
Parents Panic Over Teacher Shortage
A national Harris survey of US parents commissioned by Lexia Learning, found a large majority (76%) of parents...
At 8 months, Babies Already Know Their Grammar
Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors—e.g. articles (the), personal...
A Road to Reading
We have learned the past 20 years, through cognitive science research, that over 90% of students can learn to read at grade level by third grade; however, the Nation’s Report Card in 2019 reported...
Comprehensive Study Predicts Loss of 1,500 Languages
A comprehensive study warns that 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century. Published in Nature Ecology and Evolution (www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01604-y), the study, led by the Australian National University...
Success from the Student Perspective
The many components of a successful English as a second language (ESL) program became apparent to me watching students thrive in a neighborhood public school with an ESL program teeming with diverse students—an English...