Gestures and intonation can boost comprehension in children with developmental language disorders

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of ...
New Scientist

Using tools helps you understand language and vice versa

Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...
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The Contributions of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics to a Usage-Based Understanding of Language: Expanding the Transdisciplinary Framework

Vol. 103, Supplement: SLA Across Disciplinary Borders: New Perspectives, Critical Questions, and Research Possibilities (2019), pp. 80-94 (15 pages) A key insight of a transdisciplinary perspective on ...
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Comparison of Students' Knowledge Structure Coherence and Understanding of Force in the Philippines, Turkey, China, Mexico, and the United States

This study investigates the ongoing debate in the conceptual change literature between unitary and elemental perspectives on students' knowledge structure coherence. More specifically, the current ...