College students aren't doing the assigned reading. Some students reported being exhausted after reading assignments that spanned more than five pages. Other students struggled to understand arguments made in the reading. In this podcast episode of College Matters from The Chronicle, our Beth McMurtrie explains what's happening to reading. https://t.co/pO5Zvlqoht
🚨Reminder! Submissions for the Language Learning 2026 Special Issue are due by September 30, 2024!
📝Reach out to @Daniel_R_Isbell at [email protected] for more info.
Patterns of conversation could help identify early signs of autism in children, research by @VittorioTantuc of @LAEL_LU shows, which could help parents, clinicians and educators identify autism earlier in a child's development.
https://t.co/E3TiyQ2lev
How do parents make the choices about what language to speak and when or where to use them?
In this episode, @mjbisson interviews Professor Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen about how Pride, Prejudice, & Pragmatism influence #language choices in the family.
🔗https://t.co/5q3rF9XsZ4
Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ or ‘here’ and ‘there’ occur in all languages. Published in @PNASNews, researchers from @Yale and the MPI show that such ‘demonstrative’ words are used to direct listeners’ focus of attention and establish joint attention. https://t.co/b5jfPEXB0T
The website for Vocab@Maryland is available now: https://t.co/IjyV6fmTlc
A great place for SLA researchers to convene. June 14-18, 2025 Conference + Summer School
Some men respond aggressively when their masculinity is questioned. A new @nyupsych study shows how the behavior starts in adolescence:
https://t.co/zk8VVWlqCn
Employers in rural areas say colleges could consult more with them when devising programs to enhance the economy. Some now only reach out when seeking sponsorship support. https://t.co/VQH1yoTguy
Babies don’t babble to sound cute—they’re taking their first steps on the path to learning language.
A 2022 study shows parrot chicks do the same. #ScienceMagArchives https://t.co/EANzN7lRuI
I am very proud of the pre-print that just came out. Doris Dijksterhuis (@DorisDijk), Matt Self (@MatthewWSelf) and their team recorded from single neurons in the human hippocampus. Neurons that encode the person referred to by a noun also become active for pronouns.
SLA researchers, do you collect experimental data online? How much do you trust the data quality? Why don't we look into that? Consider submitting to our special issue of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics on online experimentation, guested edited by @rogersisinbrno & myself
"My students are bombarded with negative ideas about AI, and now they are afraid"
I just published this article with @hechingerreport on how we, educators, need to promote AI literacy, rather than demonize it.
https://t.co/dmvy4gAPwS