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Professional Recommendation

Professional development is key to supporting effective science instruction. We call for a dramatic departure from current professional development practice, both in scope and kind. Teachers need opportunities to deepen their knowledge of the science cont... Read >

What and When and How to Teach

Our recommendations for standards, curricula, assessment, and instruction follow from our conclusions. However, in some areas the research base is not robust enough to offer a detailed, step-by-step roadmap for nationwide action. Given the urgent need for... Read >

Tough Language Researching Process

Hakuta commented that the lack of classroom research is a missed opportunity. Technological advances have made collecting data and developing and coding protocols much easier, and researchers have more access to district achievement and background data fo... Read >

Research to Practice

Participants were invited to discuss professional development and issues that arise when engaging in research with teachers and classrooms. Most programs implemented in preschools and K-12 classrooms are not evidence based, Vemon Feagans stressed, and cur... Read >

Talk About Leanring Approaches

A lesson from this experience, Genesee suggested, is the value of testing the limits of what can be learned in classrooms with approaches that have a heavy focus on meaning augmented with some kind of explicit language instruction. He agreed that aspects ... Read >

Context for Language Acquisition

Guadelupe Valdes began her response by stressing that Bayley's presentation offered just one perspective on a much larger and enormously controversial and complex field that was originally described in Twenty-Five Centuries of Language Teaching. She agree... Read >

Studies and the Dialect Focus

Studies in the peer reviewed literature have not compared focus on form versus focus on meaning for speakers of varied dialects. Sweetland reported suggestive findings that contrastive analysis focus on forms combined with "sociolinguistic awareness ra... Read >

Speak Italian by Different Topics

Do you agree that you can speak Italian well by only remembering words, phrases, grammar and sentence structures in this language? Definitely it has a question mark hovering on it. As for me, if I hope to speak this language, I must gather as many Italian... Read >

A Developmental and Psychological Perspective

Two aspects of preschool language receptive and expressive vocabulary and comprehension and use of complex sentences and discourse predict later reading and other literacy skills, David Dickinson reported. For instance, several studies and a recent meta-a... Read >

Use One Software to Learn German

Software learning today is really fashionable, so why not use it to learn German? I think you can really use it to learn this language and the software can help you speak it with speed, but you should know how to use the software properly. First, you m... Read >

Think About the Proper methods to Speak French

French is not a small language in the international communication. Instead it is a very important language to transmit information to the people all over the planet. If you are determined to speak this language, you should think up some excellent ways tha... Read >

Speak Mandarin Chinese

Do you want to learn Chinese and speak it very well? I suppose you must want to. Due to this question, let's say something of this language as well as how to speak this language smoothly with your future Chinese friends. Chinese language has been devel... Read >