A Way with words : resource pack 1.

CD audio con ejercicios de vocabulario en inglés para el nivel intermedio bajo o intermedio. Contiene veintitrés lecciones con una duración total aproximada de veintinueve minutos. Su objetivo es permitir a los profesores enseñar vocabulario de una forma más comunicativa y permitir a los alumnos desarrollar habilidades de aprendizaje que les ayudarán a ser más eficaces al organizar, almacenar y recordar el vocabulario nuevo.

Más allá de las palabras = Beyond words : proyecto para la educación en valores.

Contiene: Resumen de la experiencia, memoria descriptiva y anexos. Ejemplares con R. 139716 y 139717 incompletos, faltan los anexos. Premios Nacionales de Innovación Educativa CIDE 2001. En este proyecto participan centros educativos de primaria y secundaria de varios países europeos: Grecia, Irlanda del Norte, Italia, además de España.

My first English words. 'Mis primeras palabras en inglés'.

Método interactivo para introducir a los alumnos en el aprendizaje de un segundo idioma (inglés). El trabajo está dividido en seis bloques: los números, los colores, el alfabeto, mi cuerpo, repaso y ejercicios. El material trabaja especialmente la pronunciación de palabras básicas para potenciar el reconocimiento de los aspectos sonoros y de entonación características de la lengua que se está aprendiendo.

False recognition production indexes in forward associative strength (FAS) lists with three critical words

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Hemispheric asymmetries in recognition memory for negative and neutral words

Federmeier and Benjamin (2005) have suggested that semantic encoding for verbal information in the right hemisphere can be more effective when memory demands are higher. However, other studies (Kanske & Kotz, 2007) also suggest that visual word recognition differ in function of emotional valence. In this context, the present study was designed to evaluate the effects of retention level upon recognition memory processes for negative and neutral words. Sample consisted of 15 right-handed undergraduate portuguese students with normal or corrected to normal vision. Portuguese concrete negative and neutral words were selected in accordance to known linguistic capabilities of the right hemisphere. The participants were submitted to a visual half-field word presentation using a continuous recognition memory paradigm. Eye movements were continuously monitored with a Tobii T60 eye-tracker that showed no significant differences in fixations to negative and neutral words. Reaction times in word recognition suggest an overall advantage of negative words in comparison to the neutral words. Further analysis showed faster responses for negative words than for neutral words when were recognised at longer retention intervals for left-hemisphere encoding. Electrophysiological data through event related potentials revealed larger P2 amplitude over centro-posterior electrode sites for words studied in the left hemifield suggesting a priming effect for right-hemisphere encoding. Overall data suggest different hemispheric memory strategies for the semantic encoding of negative and neutral words.

Visual intelligibility of words in isolation and in sentence context

This paper reviews a study to examine the effects on lip reading performance of word position within a sentence.

Exercises in reacting to sensory imagery and words carrying emotional overtones

This paper contains an outline of study for hearing impaired children to help them learn how to form and react to sensory imagery.

Monitoring of monosyllabic words by deaf children

This paper discusses speech intelligibilty of hearing impaired children.

Detection of words in real-speech background noise by profoundly deaf children

This paper discusses a study to assess the performance of profoundly deaf children in detection tasks with speech as the background noise.

Phoneme analysis of cochlear implant recipients' responses to CNC words using the MPEAK and SPEAK speech coding strategies of the Nucleus cochlear implant system

This paper discusses a study done to determine how cochlear implant users perceive speech sounds using MPEAK or SPEAK speech coding strategy.

Multiple meanings of words in arithmetic textbooks

This paper discusses the differences among arithmetic textbooks and how this poses problems for hearing impaired children.

Auditory and audio-visual reception of words in noise by observers with normal and impaired hearing

This dissertation examines auditory perception and audio-visual reception in noise for both hearing-impaired and normal hearing persons, with a goal of determining some of the noise conditions under which amplified acoustic cues for speech can be beneficial to hearing-impaired persons.

Infants Can Learn Decontextualized Words Before Their First Birthday

Can infants below age 1 year learn words in one context and understand them in another? To investigate this question, two groups of parents trained infants from age 9 months on 8 categories of common objects. A control group received no training. At 12 months, infants in the experimental groups, but not in the control group, showed comprehension of the words in a new context. It appears that infants under 1 year old can learn words in a decontextualized, as distinct from a context-bound, fashion. Perceptual variability within the to-be-learned categories, and the perceptual similarity between training sets and the novel test items, did not appear to affect this learning.

Transnationalism personified: young returning Trinidadians 'in their own words'

In this paper we consider the nexus existing between returning transnational migrants to Trinidad and Tobago's adaptation experiences, matters pertaining to their transnational life-paths, family and community experiences and their views on transnationalism and return. The research is based on an analysis of the detailed narratives provided by forty informants by means of semi-structured interviews. The informants consisted of nine 'second-generation', seven 'one-and-a-half-generation' and twenty-four 'prolonged sojourner' returning transnational migrants to Trinidad and Tobago. The main conceptual themes that characterise Caribbean transnationalism are presented at the beginning of the paper. Addressing these in the context of Trinidad and Tobago, we present our narrative-based findings under the following headings derived from analysis of our informant's experiences and views: transnational family and life-course issues; transnational community relationships; keeping in touch; transnational mobility and 'home as fixed anchor'; transnational identity; transnational economic and commercial interests; and strategic flexibility.

Watching the infant brain learn words: Effects of vocabulary size and experience

Previous investigations comparing auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) to words whose meanings infants did or did not comprehend, found bilateral differences in brain activity to known versus unknown words in 13-month-old infants, in contrast with unilateral, left hemisphere, differences in activity in 20-month-old infants. We explore two alternative explanations for these findings. Changes in hemispheric specialization may result from a qualitative shift in the way infants process known words between 13 and 20 months. Alternatively, hemispheric specialization may arise from increased familiarity with the individual words tested. We contrasted these two explanations by measuring ERPs from 20-month-old infants with high and low production scores, for novel words they had just learned. A bilateral distribution of ERP differences was observed in both groups of infants, though the difference was larger in the left hemisphere for the high producers. These findings suggest that word familiarity is an important factor in determining the distribution of brain regions involved in word learning. An emerging left hemispheric specialization may reflect increased efficiency in the manner in which infants process familiar and novel words. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.