children and language learning

How to build brain function

Increase your brain function
National Academy for child development has a page that talks about sequential processing and you can even take a test online brain function test This gives you concrete way to increase your brain function. It is not abstract or fringe science. It is a way that you can increase your sequential [...]

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Maths might tell us how kids learn language

The mathematics of learning
“A psychology professor reckons he has found a mathematical explanation for the “learning spurt” children experience while learning language.” read more  Math and languages  It is interesting to note that the average English speaker knows about 50,000 words, but only uses 5,000 to 10,000 on a normal basis.  I think you need about [...]

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Children innately prepared to learn language

Children and language learning
To learn a language is to learn a set of all-purpose rules that can be used in an infinite number of ways. A new study shows that by the age of seven months, human infants are on the lookout for abstract rules – and that they know the best place to look [...]

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Learning a language as a child or as an adult

Learning as adult or as a child
My parents could speak Polish and Ukrainian. I was only taught English, as in the 1960s it was important in America to learn English and fit in. I often have regretted not learning at least one of these languages. However, the reality is every one of my parent’s five [...]

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