There goes another myth: Children aren’t “sponges”
It’s not just the free-market myth that’s crumbling these days: Anne Sodermann, Michigan State University professor emeritus of Family and Child, spent some hundred hours in a bilingual Mandarin-English Kindergarten in Bejing. In a recent study (Powerpoint-presentation here), watching 3 to 6 year old children from 16 nationalities, she came to a surprising conclusion: “There’s [...]
“Trying to get them to use modal verbs while they’re being chased by a bear”
Todd Bryant on language learning within the online game World of Warcraft Interview with Todd Bryant (mp3- download with right click) Transcript below Why did you start using World of Warcraft in the classroom in 2006? I think I started to think about games whenever Sims Online came out ….I don’t know if you remember [...]
