October 9, 2007at 2:04 pm
· Filed under Brain and language learning, Games and Language learning, General language learning, Memory and language learning
My brain lesion
I had a brain lesion about 16 years ago. The word lesion is really a general medical jargon word. What I had was basically bleeding in the brain from capillary telangiectasia or a cavernous malformation. The result was I had memory and brain processing problems. I still functioned at a rather high cognitive level, […]
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Tags: brain, brain lesion, brain rehabilitation, capillary telangiectasia, cavernous malformation, computer games, language, language-learning, memory, rehabilitate, rehabilitation, stroke
October 2, 2007at 2:13 pm
· Filed under Children, babies and language, Games and Language learning, General language learning
Playing with blocks helps children build language abilities
If you liked playing with blocks when you were a child, you are in luck, chances are your linguistic ability was improved.
A University of Washington, Seattle study has shown that language skill in children who played with blocks, were 15% higher than those who did not. This is actually […]
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Tags: blocks, children, games, language, play
April 20, 2007at 5:52 am
· Filed under Games and Language learning, How to learn a language, Learn French
Play to learn
Electronic Arts has announced that its casual game portal subsidiary Pogo is moving rapidly to expand across Europe, with a new German language service, new reward services for UK users, and a French language version expected in the coming months.
As of today, European casual gamers can log on to Pogo to play the […]
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Tags: language-learning, play to learn
