Thursday, February 02, 2006

Learning languages

There's a programme on Radio 4 tonight, Say What You Think, which takes a look at how we learn languages. It covers children's grasp of phonemes, issues like the Critical Period Hypothesis and how our ability to learn new languages declines with age. Looks good for ENA1 CLA students and teachers...
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Black British English vs MLE

The latest episode of Lexis is out and it features an interview with Ife Thompson about lots of issues connected to Black British English, i...

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