Posts Tagged ‘vocabulary’
Word-rich preschools pay off in 4th grade
VANDERBILT U. (US) — Preschool children who hear sophisticated language in preschool and at home reap rewards years later—performing well on fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition exams. Continue…
Friday, August 19, 2011 16:00 - 0 Comments
Health & Medicine - Mar 25, 2010 17:54 - 1 Comment
Gestures linked to language development
U. CHICAGO (US)—Children with brain injuries may use gesture to signal they need help in developing language, research shows. The children who make the fewest gestures early in development also develop spoken vocabulary more slowly. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 21, 2009 19:20 - 3 Comments
Design database: What’s in a name?
CORNELL (US)—Jan Jennings, professor of design and environmental analysis at Cornell University, has produced the first searchable online database for names of contemporary design with images of existing buildings, which, she says, have for the most part gone unnamed and undocumented for decades, and in some cases, centuries. (more…)
