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"Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults...
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English
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"Using trusted American Sign Language (ASL), Baby Signing Essentials is the go-to guide for parents, caregivers, and educators looking to create effective two-way communication. Designed to grow with your baby by covering physical, emotional, mental, and linguistic development at each age, this shows you how to start signing right from your baby's birth or later on." --
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Draws on cutting-edge scientific findings to address key issues about language development, demonstrating how human beings are born with an innate ability to speak any language but customize their communication abilities to accommodate the language that they hear.
7) This is baby
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
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English
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Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's The Tonight Show, presents a book that teaches babies the words for the various parts of their body.--adapted from publisher's description.
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English
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"A lot of babies' first words were Dada. However, everything after that was Mama. Readers take a look from a baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in addition to Mama for familiar objects and activities."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher
Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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"The new edition of this accessible book for early childhood educators includes updated research and a greatly expanded chapter on assessment and highlights cultural diversity. It also includes a new tool for monitoring children's progress as they learn English as a second language. Updated from the first edition and written expressly for teachers, this highly readable resource moves beyond the basics of child development to describe the natural progression...
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English
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"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for...
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Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses...