News tagged with language test

Neurological differences support dyslexia subtypes

Jun 25, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Parts of the right hemisphere of the brains of people with dyslexia have been shown to differ from those of normal readers. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

International research tests language tests

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Jun 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Unique Queen's University research will shed light on how motivation and anxiety affects language test scores, and on the relationship between the test scores and the social and educational contexts of the tests.

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Use it or lose it? Study suggests the brain can remember a 'forgotten' language

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 24, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 1

Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language ...

Study finds that children can learn a second language in preschool

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

Interim results from an international research project which looks at bilingual education reveal that children can learn a second language as early as preschool.

Conversing helps language development more than reading alone

Medicine & Health / Research

Jun 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Adult-child conversations have a more significant impact on language development than exposing children to language through one-on-one reading alone, according to a new study in the July issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the ...

Exposure to two languages carries far-reaching benefits

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

May 19, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 5

People who can speak two languages are more adept at learning a new foreign language than their monolingual counterparts, according to research conducted at Northwestern University. And their bilingual advantage persists ...

New research disclosure language created

Medicine & Health / Other

Jan 22, 2007 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

U.S. medical researchers have developed language designed to help clinical researchers better disclose their financial interests in research.

Genetic loci assigned for musical aptitude in Finnish families

Medicine & Health / Research

May 19, 2008 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

Researchers from Finland and USA have identified one major and several potential loci associated with musical aptitude in the human genome. The results raise an interesting question about common evolutionary background of ...

Polish and Italian get advanced language recognition system

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jan 23, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed the most advanced spontaneous language understanding (SLU) system for both Polish and Italian. In fact, it is the first one.

Children 'increasingly unlikely' to learn a modern language

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Sep 03, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are increasingly unlikely to leave school with even the most basic knowledge of modern languages despite Government claims to the contrary, an independent study has found.

Perfect Pitch: Language Wins Out Over Genetics

Other Sciences / Other

May 19, 2009 | 4 / 5 (8) | 4

Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sinatra and Hendrix -- these and many other of the world's most famous musicians have had "perfect" or "absolute" pitch. The ability, defined as recognizing the pitch of a musical note ...