Webinar: How the Brain Learns Language, and What It Means for Teaching (23.06.2021)
Webinar: How the Brain Learns Language, and What It Means for Teaching (23.06.2021)
Lecturers: Prof. James R. Booth, Prof. Tali Bitan, Prof. Vedran Dronjic.
https://mofet-web.macam.ac.il/interna...
Different languages and writing systems vary in terms of their orthographic transparency, phonological ambiguity, morphological complexity and semantic properties. These differences result in both universal and unique cognitive requirements underlying reading acquisition in the native language and also during learning a second language.
This webinar is composed of three presentations – In the first two we will show some of the cognitive and neural aspects underlying reading development in Hebrew, English and Chinese speaking children. The last talk (a workshop) will provide evidence based strategies for teaching vocabulary in a second language.