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La metodología RETAMHE y el proyecto CHILDES : breviario para la codificación y análisis del lenguaje infantil
(Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 1999)En este artículo se investigan algunas cuestiones metodológicas relativas al estudio del lenguaje infantil y se presenta la instrumentación y el software desarrollados en el proyecto CHILDES (Sistema de Intercambio de Datos ... -
Language considerations in refugee education: languages for opportunity, connection, and roots
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-10-05)Currently 26 million people live as refugees, 40% of whom are school-aged. As global policy shifts to include refugee children and young people in education systems in settings of exile, language-in-education emerges as ... -
The Language of Race
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Language, partial truth, and logic
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Learning Civic Leadership: Leader Skill Development in the Sierra Club
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Learning from Comparison in Algebra
(2014-04-28)Mastery of algebra is an important yet difficult milestone for students, suggesting the need for more effective teaching strategies in the algebra classroom. Learning by comparing worked-out examples of algebra problems ... -
Learning Lessons From Instruction: Descriptive Results From an Observational Study of Urban Elementary Classrooms
(Teachers College Record, 2018)Background: For nearly three decades, policy makers and researchers in the United States have promoted more intellectually rigorous standards for mathematics teaching and learning. Yet, to date, we have limited descriptive ... -
Learning to Lead: Pedagogy of Practice
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Learning to reason about ecosystems dynamics over time: The challenges of an event-based causal focus.
(American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2013)Expert reasoning about ecosystems requires a focus on the dynamics of the system, including the inherent processes, change over time, and responses to disturbances. However, students often bring assumptions to thinking ... -
Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development
(2008)Children vary widely in how quickly their vocabularies grow. Can looking at early gesture use in children and parents help us predict this variability? We videotaped 53 English-speaking parent-child dyads in their homes ... -
The Legacy of 'Two Dogmas'
(University of Illinois Press, 2011)W. V. Quine is famous, or perhaps infamous, for his repudiation of the analytic/synthetic distinction and kindred dualisms—the necessary/contingent dichotomy and the a priori/a posteriori dichotomy. As these dualisms have ... -
Legitimating status: perceptions of meritocracy and inequality among undergraduates at an elite British university
(Wiley, 2014)Given the frequent critiques of elite universities for admitting low numbers of state-school graduates and, more recently, British Afro-Caribbean students, how do students attending those universities make meaning of the ... -
The Lengthening of Childhood
(American Economic Association, 2008)Over the past 40 years, the age at which children enter first grade has slowly drifted upward. In the fall of 1968, 96 percent of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. By 2005, the proportion had ... -
Lexical access in bilinguals: Effects of vocabulary size and executive control
(Elsevier BV, 2008)We report the results of two studies investigating lexical access in bilinguals. In Study 1,monolinguals performed better than bilinguals on tests of naming and letter fluency, but not on category fluency. When vocabulary ... -
Liberalism versus Democracy? Schooling Private Citizens in the Public Square
(1997)This article examines the conflict in political liberalism between the demands placed on education by liberalism and those placed on education by democracy. In so far as the principles of political liberalism entail both ... -
Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains White Matter Integrity in Older Adults
(Society for Neuroscience, 2011)Previous research has shown that bilingual speakers have higher levels of cognitive control than comparable monolinguals, especially at older ages. The present study investigates a possible neural correlate of this behavioral ... -
Literacy as a pathway between schooling and health-related communication skills: a study of Venezuelan mothers
(2005)This article addresses the mechanisms by which women’s schooling might affect the survival and health of their children. A theoretical model is proposed in which academic literacy skills serve as a pathway between formal ... -
Literacy Challenges for the Twenty-First Century: Introducing the Issue
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)Advanced literacy is a prerequisite to adult success in the twenty-first century, By advanced literacy we do not mean simply the ability to decode words or read a text, as necessary as these elementary skills are, Instead ... -
Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008)The mapping of numbers onto space is fundamental to measurement and to mathematics. Is this mapping a cultural invention or a universal intuition shared by all humans regardless of culture and education? We probed number-space ...