How the elderly brain benefits from bilingualism
Sustained use of both languages may protect the bilingual elderly from age-related cognitive decline, according to a recent study from Singapore on switching language...
Correcting teachers’ preconceptions of corrective feedback
Inexperienced teachers hesitate to correct, especially explicitly, despite believing that students need corrective feedback, according to a Canadian study.
Ninety-nine pre-service ESL teachers were asked...
Making the most of morphemes
Morphemic regularity may help babies acquire concepts like number and gender
Research has long shown that, whatever their L1, infants learn words at much the...
Drawing out the meanings of collocations
Students learn verb-noun collocations better by exploring the meaning of verbs and prepositions via drawings they then explain to their peers, according to a...
Don’t judge a learner by their label: US teacher expectations of ELLs
Label, not language level, may determine teachers’ perceptions, study finds
Labelling US school pupils as English Language Learners (ELLs) leads to lower teachers’ expectations, except...
How learning Chinese improved Ernie’s English
A Chinese Artificial intelligence (AI) platform has improved AI understanding of both Chinese and English, reports Yu Sun and colleagues from Baidu Inc., Beijing.
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