Monthly Archives: December 2019

Requiring cursive writing instruction: linked letters improve spelling proficiency.

Posted on December 30, 2019 by arnovick

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/nyregion/cursive-writing-nj.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Do babies cry in different languages?

Posted on December 23, 2019 by brinton

It seems that prosody (of the language heard in the womb) can affect how a baby cries: https://parenting.nytimes.com/baby/wermke-prespeech-development-wurzburg

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Attempts to preserve Indigenous Languages in the US

Posted on December 12, 2019 by arnovick

“Of the 115 Indigenous language spoken in the United States, only two are healthy. Cherokee writer Rebecca Nagle writes for High Country News about the language extinction crisis the US currently faces—and the federal government’s insufficient efforts to preserve the … Continue reading →

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