Article: Relations of Language and Thought: The View from Sign Language and Deaf Children. (book reviews)

Article: Evidence that mental functioning declines with age may be the ...
PR Newswire;  May 28, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... as we accept students as the ideal, older people will look bad." Unlike older people, students memorize every day. Patricia Siple, also at Wayne State, has found that although older people don't memorize as well as young students, they memorize ...

Article: Language choices in the intercultural classroom: ...
Babel;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... communicative aims. KEY WORDS Intercultural language learning, choice of languages, role of first language in language learning. WHY IS THERE AN ISSUE? The choice of which languages to use in language classrooms for communication and for ...

Article: Language switching and the effects of orthographic ...
Memory & Cognition;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... orthography on switch cost. Language-Specific Orthography ... systems of bilinguals is not language selective (e.g ... possibilities in both languages even when the bilingual subject knows that only one language is currently needed ...

Article: Language disorder or difference? Assessing the ...
Exceptional Children;  October 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... manifested in the primary language, it will also be reflected in the second language. Furthermore, all studies ... importance of assessing both languages. Other considerations ... possibility of primary language loss (Merino, 1983b ...

Article: Language Training and Skills
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security;      700+ words ... ... working knowledge of a language or languages. In many cases ... years' worth of a language in high school or college. Of the languages offered to American ... United States. Languages are tested through the Defense Language Aptitude Battery ...

Article: Language Line Services Opens Tucson Office to Help Local ...
Business Wire;  March 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... document into a customer's languages * Language Line[R] Localization ... applications into different languages * Language Line[R] Video Interpreter ... speaking clients in selected languages * Language Line[R] On-site Interpretation ...

Article: Languishing languages: cultures at risk.(many ...
Science News;  February 25, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... with extinct languages might begin ... their forgotten language's grammar ... only as second languages. And adults who learn a second language not only tend ... their first language. "So if any ... became first languages again," she ...