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Copyright 2014 Janet Zadina, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

Mar 2020: At 8 Months, Babies Already Know Basic Grammar

Jan 2020: The Visual Language of Comic Books can Improve Brain Function

Jan 2020: Bilingual Language Program for Babies: Online Training for Teachers

Dec 2019: The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes

Nov 2019: Should Preschool Writing be More Communication and Less ABCs?

Nov 2019: New Research Quantifies How Much Speakers' First Language Affects Learning a New Language

Nov 2019: Do Babies Cry in Different Languages?

Nov 2019: Experiences of Non-native English Speakers in Higher Education: An Alumni's Experience

Sep 2019: Cultural Outreach Prevents Social Exclusion

Aug 2019: Type of Brain Cell Involved in Stuttering Identified

Jul 2019: The 'Blowfish Effect': Children Learn New Words Like Adults Do

Jul 2019: Electronic Baby Toys Associated with Decrease in Quality and Quantity of Language in Infants

Jul 2019: How Does Playing with Other Children Affect Toddlers' Language Learning?

Jul 2019: How the Bilingual Brain Switches Languages

Jun 2019: Music Develops the Spoken Language of the Hearing-Impaired

Mar 2019: The Language You Speak Predicts Your Ability To Remember The Different Parts Of Lists

Jan 2019: Babies Who Hear Two Languages at Home Develop Advantages in Attention

Jan 2019: An MRI of What Happens Inside Our Mouths When We Speak

Dec 2018: Passive Exposure Alone Can Enhance the Learning of Foreign Speech Sounds

Nov 2018: Parents Learn, Babies Talk: How Coaching Moms and Dads Improves Infants' Language Skills

Nov 2018: Dialogue Improves Children’s Learning Abilities

Nov 2018: Electronic Baby Toys Associated with Decrease in Quality and Quantity of Language in Infants

Oct 2018: Latin may Help Students Bridge their Native Language with English

Aug 2018: Children Take Longer to Learn Two Languages at Once Compared to Just One -- Don't Fret

Jul 2018: Great TED Talks for Language Practice

Jul 2018: Want to Know What the American Speech Language Association Says About Speech and Language Developmental Milestones? Check Out this Great Graphic for 0-5 Years!

Jul 2018: Baby Talk Words Build Infants' Language Skills

Jun 2018: The Up-Goer Five Text Editor: Can You Explain a Hard Idea Using Only the Ten Hundred Most Used Words?

Jun 2018: Measure Your Students’ Vocabulary Size

Jun 2018: How Music Lessons can Improve Language Skills

May 2018: The Secret to Honing Kids' Language and Literacy

Apr 2018: Brain's Window for Language Learning Open Until Adulthood

Feb 2018: Bilingualism Could Offset Brain Changes in Alzheimer's

Feb 2018: Back-and-Forth Exchanges Boost Children's Brain Response to Language

Jan 2018: Does it Take Effort for Bilingual Speakers to Switch Between Languages? It Depends.

Nov 2017: Hearing Different Accents at Home Impacts Language Processing in Infants

Oct 2017: Bilingual Preschoolers Show Stronger Inhibitory Control

Oct 2017: Learning Two Languages Does Not Limit Academic Potential for Head Start Students

Oct 2017: If Your Child is Bilingual, Learning Additional Languages Later Might be Easier

Oct 2017: Screen Children with Reading Difficulties for Hearing Problems

Oct 2017: Something Universal Occurs in the Brain when it Processes Stories, Regardless of Language

Oct 2017: Baby Talk in Any Language: Shifting the Timbre of our Voices

Oct 2017: How US Kids’ Problems with Fractions Reveal the Fascinating Link Between Language and Maths

Sep 2017: The Bilingual Brain Calculates Differently Depending on the Language Used

Sep 2017: 10 Ted Talks Every English Student Should Watch

Sep 2017: Is Changing Languages Effortful for Bilingual Speakers? Depends on the Situation, New Research Shows

Sep 2017: Reducing Faculty Stress and Preventing Burnout: Science and Strategies

Aug 2017: Bilingual Babies Listen to Language

Aug 2017: A very Long List of Linguistics Movies, Documentaries, and TV Show Episodes

Jul 2017: New Study Method Helps People Differentiate Between English 'L' and ‘R'

Jun 2017: How do You Draw a Circle? We Analyzed 100,000 Drawings to Show how Culture Shapes our Instincts

Jun 2017: Music Sessions can Help Millions who Struggle to Speak to Lead a Richer Life

Jun 2017: How 'The Gruffalo' Helped Academics Boost Youngsters' Motor Skills and Language Ability

What is it Like to Learn Math in a Different Language?

The Benefits of a Bilingual Brain

Two Languages Develop Simultaneously, But Independently, in Bilingual Children

Repetition a Key Factor in Language Learning

Language Shapes how the Brain Perceives Time

Handheld Screen Time Linked with Speech Delays in Young Children

The Sooner You Expose A Baby To A Second Language, The Smarter They’ll Be

A High School's Lesson For Helping English Language Learners Get To College

Language Learning: Fast, Fluent and Flawless

English Learners Treated Differently Depending on Where They go to School

Children and Youth Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success

Listen to the Beautiful Diversity of Voices Around the World on this Interactive Map

Working Memory as Key to Preventing Misdiagnoses, Overrepresentation of Minorities in Special Education

Report: Innovative Science Instruction Boosts Academic Performance Among English Learners

Songs For Teaching English Grammar

6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education

Bilingual Brains Activate Different Networks when Reading Opaque, Transparent Languages

Bilingual Babies Learn Languages Faster than Monolingual Babies

Bilingual toddlers who obtain more practice in language switching are better at certain types of problem solving

Interview with Dr. Zadina

New Research Explains How The Pen Is Mightier Than The Keyboard

Pattern Learning Key to Children's Language Development

3 Learning Myths Busted by Brain Research

Three Ways That Handwriting With A Pen Positively Affects Your Brain

Can Latin Help Younger Students Build Vocabulary?

Can Handwriting Make You Smarter?

Bilingualism reinforces and strengthens brain networks

Bilingual toddlers who obtain more practice in language switching are better at certain types of problem solving

216 foreign words for positive emotional states which do not exist in English language

Does language shape what we think?

Brain Signals Link Physical Fitness To Better Language Skills In Kids

Fifty-Ways-Practice-To-Practice Vocabulary-ebook (Amazon)

Introducing-new-language-so-that-it-sticks

Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain (youtube)

Free Sample Lessons

Astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another

Kaplan Game App Teaches Students English

English Language Teaching and Learning apps

Language Instruction Improved With Fun and Games

Study: Babies Have Conscious Experience Of The World As Early As 5 Months

Role-Playing Game Brings New Life to a 'Dead' Language

False Fronts in the Language Wars

Does Speaking in a Second Language Make You Think More, or Feel Less?

Small Change In Reading To Preschoolers Can Help Disadvantaged Kids Catch Up

Reduce Dumb Decisions by Thinking in a Foreign Language

Two Challenges in Teaching ELLs

Music to Help Children Learn a New Language: 10 Minutes at a Time

Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal

Teaching Methods and Correlation to Learning in the Language Classroom

Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education

Resources for Two-Way Immersion and Dual Language Practitioners

Copyright 2013 Janet Zadina, Ph.D. All rights reserved

Janet N. Zadina, Ph.D

Brain Research and Instruction

Science and Strategies

Janet N. Zadina, Ph.D

Brain Research and Instruction

Bridging Neuroscience and Education

"Science and Strategies"