Infants learn earlier than thought

ann gavriel sense07 at waitrose.com
Thu Feb 19 16:06:17 UTC 2009


Bring back Basil Bernstein, all is forgiven ! 'Elaborate and Restricted 
Codes' -
I recommend it - get hold of a copy.  It makes interesting reading again -
especially now in UK where such language mindfulness is more pertinent than 
ever
 - and no longer a case of  'class' or 'wealth' stratification...in the 
language our hapless offspring
end up speaking...
Because they're all (sorry! slip of the finger - we're all...) dumbed down, 
PC'd up,
and 'restricted' to such an extent that we can't 'elaborate' for toffee... 
unless it's
in clique-speak, peer-solidarity or regional identity (huddle together for 
security)
accents, bureaucratic twaddle-ese or other 'formal' and excluding 
gobbledygook.
Time, as I keep saying, to upgrade (to internationalize) English.. so that
we speak it at least half as well as the 'unrestricted code' non-native 
English speakers
in Scandinavia and Europe....
Ann Gavriel
MA Applied Linguistics  and ELT (1989)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnson, David" <johnsondc at wsu.edu>
To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Edling] Infants learn earlier than thought


> Haven't we heard these ideas before - that poverty is correlated leads to 
> impoverished language - and isn't this exactly what Labov proved was 
> nonsense in the 60's and 70's? Even if we accept that children in more 
> educated households develop more extensive lexicons, you cannot equate 
> "lexicon" with "language"; nor can you claim that a larger lexicon means 
> more complex thinking or language. Hemingway expressed a great deal of 
> complexity with the word "good". Others use arcane language for simple 
> ideas. This myth denigrates the syntactic and pragmatic complexity over 
> which every healthy human brain has command.
>
> There is probably some interesting stuff going on here that the article is 
> not bringing to light but what I find most perplexing is the direct quote 
> from Kuhl in which she asserts that having an educated family leads to 
> more complex dreams. How do you operationalize "dream complexity"?
>
> Re: Francis' query: Perhaps these ideas get media coverage because they 
> are aligned with popular, yet incorrect, discourses about language and 
> linguistics. I think Stephen Pinker offers a good example of how to 
> counter such myths. His book, The Language Instinct, dismantles many 
> linguistic myths, including the one alluded to in this article; it's also 
> very entertaining. Maybe the lesson is that you need to be entertaining 
> and good on a show like the Colbert Report (which he was on last week). 
> However, he's not talking about language anymore since he's become 
> interested in the human genome so there's a space to fill.
>
> David Cassels Johnson
> Assitant Professor
> Language and Literacy Education
> Washington State University
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>   3. Re: Infants learn earlier than thought (Nancy Hornberger)
>   4. Book: No, they won't 'just sound like each other' (Francis Hult)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:22:17 -0600
> From: "Francis Hult" <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Edling] Infants learn earlier than thought
> To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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> This sort of misinformation seems like a common thread in many articles 
> about language learning in popular media.  Your comments make me wonder 
> what our responsibility is as researchers and public intellectuals.  What 
> role should we have in educating the public about what we know?  What is 
> the best way to do that?  Could we even have a bigger impact on policy by 
> engaging more with the general public through popular media?  FMH
>
> --
> Francis M. Hult, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
> University of Texas at San Antonio
>
> Web: http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Nancy Hornberger [mailto:nancyh at gse.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Fri 2/6/2009 10:54 AM
> To: Francis Hult; edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
> Subject: Re: [Edling] Infants learn earlier than thought
>
>
>
> Francis and all -- this turned out to be one of the scarier articles
> I've read in recent times!  all sorts of unfounded assertions and leaps
> from brain scans (that don't seem to tell us anything we didn't already
> know) to recommendations to parents to read to their child (even in
> utero), with unsubstantiated stereotypes about welfare, affluence, and
> vocabulary development casually thrown into the mix.  Truly alarming to
> think that this sort of stuff gets wide attention through the media. 
> Yikes!
> Nhh
>
> Francis Hult wrote on 5 Feb 2009:
>> The Seattle Times
>>
>>
>>
>> Infants learn earlier than thought
>>
>>
>>
>> Until recently, humans could safely view their brains as fatty, spongy 
>> masses of electrifying wonder. Brains are, in a sense, a secret place no 
>> one else can tap into unless we let them; they are our memory banks and 
>> central control centers that dictate how we behave and reason and 
>> interact with others.
>>
>>
>>
>> But in the past decade, neuroscientists across the world have started to 
>> peer into the young brain to determine exactly how we learn. Examining 
>> their findings, researchers say that learning starts at birth, and 
>> perhaps even earlier.
>>
>>
>>
>> Full story:
>>
>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2008700779_brains03.html
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:01:56 -0500
> From: Harold Schiffman <haroldfs at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Edling] Infants learn earlier than thought
> To: Nancy Hornberger <nancyh at gse.upenn.edu>, Edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
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> I'm surprised that you're so upset about this Nancy.  Patricia Kuhl is
> a reputable scholar
> and has been studying early childhood language acquisition for some
> time. I knew her
> from my time at U. of Washington.  Or are you upset about what the
> newspaper report
> deduces from her research?
>
> Hal Schiffman
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Nancy Hornberger <nancyh at gse.upenn.edu> 
> wrote:
>> Francis and all -- this turned out to be one of the scarier articles
>> I've read in recent times!  all sorts of unfounded assertions and leaps
>> from brain scans (that don't seem to tell us anything we didn't already
>> know) to recommendations to parents to read to their child (even in
>> utero), with unsubstantiated stereotypes about welfare, affluence, and
>> vocabulary development casually thrown into the mix.  Truly alarming to
>> think that this sort of stuff gets wide attention through the media. 
>> Yikes!
>> Nhh
>>
>> Francis Hult wrote on 5 Feb 2009:
>>> The Seattle Times
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Infants learn earlier than thought
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Until recently, humans could safely view their brains as fatty, spongy 
>>> masses of electrifying wonder. Brains are, in a sense, a secret place no 
>>> one else can tap into unless we let them; they are our memory banks and 
>>> central control centers that dictate how we behave and reason and 
>>> interact with others.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But in the past decade, neuroscientists across the world have started to 
>>> peer into the young brain to determine exactly how we learn. Examining 
>>> their findings, researchers say that learning starts at birth, and 
>>> perhaps even earlier.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Full story:
>>>
>>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2008700779_brains03.html
>>>
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>>> Edling mailing list
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> Harold F. Schiffman
>
> Professor Emeritus of
> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
> Dept. of South Asia Studies
> University of Pennsylvania
> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
>
> Phone:  (215) 898-7475
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:38:43 -0500
> From: Nancy Hornberger <nancyh at gse.upenn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Edling] Infants learn earlier than thought
> To: Harold Schiffman <haroldfs at gmail.com>
> Cc: Edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
> Message-ID: <498CBBF3.9040606 at gse.upenn.edu>
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>
> Hal -- the latter primarily.  I am aware of the research, which troubles
> me for different reasons, but it's the reporting of it and the
> unsubstantiated leaps to direct implications for parents and schools
> that troubles me in this case.
> Nancy
>
> Harold Schiffman wrote:
>> I'm surprised that you're so upset about this Nancy.  Patricia Kuhl is
>> a reputable scholar
>> and has been studying early childhood language acquisition for some
>> time. I knew her
>> from my time at U. of Washington.  Or are you upset about what the
>> newspaper report
>> deduces from her research?
>>
>> Hal Schiffman
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Nancy Hornberger <nancyh at gse.upenn.edu> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Francis and all -- this turned out to be one of the scarier articles
>>> I've read in recent times!  all sorts of unfounded assertions and leaps
>>> from brain scans (that don't seem to tell us anything we didn't already
>>> know) to recommendations to parents to read to their child (even in
>>> utero), with unsubstantiated stereotypes about welfare, affluence, and
>>> vocabulary development casually thrown into the mix.  Truly alarming to
>>> think that this sort of stuff gets wide attention through the media. 
>>> Yikes!
>>> Nhh
>>>
>>> Francis Hult wrote on 5 Feb 2009:
>>>
>>>> The Seattle Times
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Infants learn earlier than thought
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Until recently, humans could safely view their brains as fatty, spongy 
>>>> masses of electrifying wonder. Brains are, in a sense, a secret place 
>>>> no one else can tap into unless we let them; they are our memory banks 
>>>> and central control centers that dictate how we behave and reason and 
>>>> interact with others.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But in the past decade, neuroscientists across the world have started 
>>>> to peer into the young brain to determine exactly how we learn. 
>>>> Examining their findings, researchers say that learning starts at 
>>>> birth, and perhaps even earlier.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Full story:
>>>>
>>>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2008700779_brains03.html
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Edling mailing list
>>>> Edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
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>>
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>>
>>
>
> -- 
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> Professor, University of Pennsylvania
>
> http://www.gse.upenn.edu/~hornberg/
> http://www.springer.com/education/language+education/book/978-0-387-32875-1
> (Encyclopedia of Language and Education)
> http://picasaweb.google.com/nancy.hornberger
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:04:24 -0600
> From: "Francis Hult" <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
> Subject: [Edling] Book: No, they won't 'just sound like each other'
> To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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> <http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=58476&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1>
>
> No, they won't 'just sound like each other'
>
>
>
> NNS-NNS Negotiated Interaction and Attention to Phonological Form on 
> Targeted L2 Pronunciation Tasks
>
>
>
> Author: Laura Sicola
>
>
>
> Series:
>
> Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft
> Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture   Vol. 72
>
>
>
> Year of Publication: 2009
>
>
>
> Book synopsis
>
> Can two non-native speakers (NNSs) work together to improve their L2 
> pronunciation? This book explores this question by extending task-based 
> learning research into the field of L2 phonology/pronunciation. Three 
> university-level L2 English pronunciation classes performed a two-way, 
> interactive map task balancing communicative value and form essentialness 
> in order to maximize the need to negotiate the target form. Analysis 
> sought to identify processes by which NNSs drew each other's attention to 
> the targeted phoneme through corrective feedback, modified production and 
> other strategies. The influence of task design was also explored. 
> Participants' ability to push each other toward more targetlike control - 
> rather than appropriating each others' non-targetlike productions - 
> provided evidence of steps in adult learners' L2 phonological development, 
> and hold implications for the use of a task-based approach to teaching 
> pronunciation in the L2 classroom.
>
>
>
> Contents: Second language acquisition - L2 phonology - Pronunciation - 
> Task-based language teaching/learning -Attention - Negotiation - 
> Corrective feedback - Modification - Nonnative-nonnative interaction - 
> Accent - Intelligibility - Cognitive processing - Output - Pushed output - 
> Explicit/implicit negotiation.
>
>
>
> The Author: Laura Sicola, Ph.D., received her doctorate in educational 
> linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA). She 
> has taught bilingual elementary school in Los Angeles, high school EFL in 
> Nagoya (Japan), and university-level ESL at the University of Pennsylvania 
> where she currently lectures on approaches and methods in TESOL.
>
>
>
> http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=58476&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1 
> <http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=58476&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:14:51 -0600
> From: "Francis Hult" <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
> Subject: [Edling] Summer Institutes for Language Teachers 7/27-31/2009
> To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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> Via AAAL...
>
> Language and Culture in Sync: Teaching the Pragmatics of a Second Language
> July 27-31, 2009, CARLA/University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
>
> A truly daunting challenge for second language learners is to adjust their 
> language use so that it is appropriate for different socio-cultural 
> contexts. How, for example, are learners supposed to address strangers, 
> close friends, or people of higher social status in that culture? While 
> acquiring discourse practices can take learners many years, research has 
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>
>
>
> This institute provides practical insights for teachers on how to enhance 
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>
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> communication means getting what we want. Isn't that what teachers need to 
> motivate and encourage students and to raise all student's achievements? 
> We need this kind of training!
>
> Presenters:
> Noriko Ishihara, PhD, Hosei University, Japan
> Andrew D. Cohen, PhD, University of Minnesota (guest speaker)
>
>
>
> Readings include:
>
> Ishihara, N., & Cohen, A. D. (in press). Teaching and learning pragmatics: 
> Where language and culture meet. Pearson Education (latest manuscript to 
> be shared with all participants)
>
> More information about this institute is available on the
> CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/2008/pragmatics.pdf 
> <http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/2008/pragmatics.pdf>
>
>
>
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>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:17:48 -0600
> From: "Francis Hult" <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
> Subject: [Edling] CFP: Language Learning in Computer Mediated
> Communities (LLCMC) Conference
> To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:50:44 -0600
> From: "Francis Hult" <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
> Subject: [Edling] Summer Workshops in Arizona for LCTL Instruction
> To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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> This summer workshop series provides professional development 
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> Message: 8
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> Subject: [Edling] 30th Ethnography in Education Research Forum
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