It’s been six months since I posted the last collection of links to language-related articles and sites from @ielanguages on Twitter. Here’s what I’ve been tweeting about recently:
Tomorrow is the European Day of Languages (September 26)
Studies on Language Learning & Acquisition
- Infant Brains are Hardwired for Language
- Preschool years can be ‘perfect storm’ for language learning
- Bilingual Ed., Immersion Found to Work Equally Well
- Early enhancement of language skills prevents dropout
- Building language skills more critical for boys than girls
- Colgate professors’ research sheds light on foreign-language learning
- Foreign accents make speakers seem less truthful to listeners
- Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
- Less Pain for Learning Gain: Research Offers a Strategy to Increase Learning With Less Effort
- Ask François Grosjean: What Does Research Say About the Benefits of Multilingualism?
- Pre-Stored Phrases Make It Easier to Be Part of a Conversation
- Accent Addition: Prosody and Perception Facilitate Second Language Learning
Education & Teaching / In the Classroom
- Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?
- Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to Think Globally
- Preparing Students for the “Real World”: Social Networking and 21st Century Skills
- Universities with the Best Free Online Courses
- College takes French to new level with Le Quartier Français
- 100 Intro Open Courses on Everything You Have Ever Wanted To Learn
- 14 websites to make you a more intelligent person
- Foreign Language Teaching Methods Modules (University of Texas-Austin)
Language in Society
- The Economist’s Language Blog
- In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French
- British lecturer Peter Gumbel attacks French education culture
- In Miami, Spanish becoming primary language
- Many US Latinos who speak English turn to Spanish TV, radio
- Government of Canada Invests in Francophone Culture in Ontario
- Bilingualism pays in Canada, study finds
- Career advantages of learning a foreign language
- Britons “mindful over language”
- Languages Considered Least Important Subjects For Children To Learn At School
- (Georgia president) Saakashvili: ‘Every Schoolchild should Learn English’
- Arabic to become compulsory in Israeli schools
- A New Second Language for Morocco?
In French / About French
- Vous parlez français ? L’ONU recrute !
- Du français aux quatre coins de l’Amérique
- “Eblabla” et “bolidage” pour remplacer “chat” et “tunning”
- Chaîne de télévision francophone hors Québec : Les instigateurs du projet confirment leurs intentions
- La Loi 101 pour contrer le recul du français à Montréal
- Bill Casselman’s Québec Words
General Language Learning
- Ten killer tactics for learning a new language
- How To Learn A Second Language
- Study with native speakers from Latin America and Africa via Skype
- Langmaster: Free Languages Online
- Use tatoeba.org for mining sentences
- Why & how to use frequency lists to learn words
- Free books and stories and fables and poems and rhymes, all online, in so many languages
- Bilingual Texts: Language learning revolution
- McGraw-Hill Audio Study Player
- Acapela text-to-speech demo
