Deaf Kids in Nicaragua Give Birth to New Language
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Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated
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NEW YORK -- The goals were clear when Sheneen Jackson enrolled her son in one of the first public schools in the nation to focus on Arabic language and culture. First, her 11-year-old would master Arabic. Later, doors would open for him in government and diplomacy -- maybe a job at the United...
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A little green artifact from Nigeria transforms normal nine-year old boy into multilingual, transcontinental cultural ambassador
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BELINGA, Gabon  - The pygmies of Gabon's lush northeast equatorial forests may soon be learning Chinese.
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School children as young as seven in England will have to learn a foreign language, the government announced Monday after a report said it must try harder to boost the country's poor linguistic skills.
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&quot;This is a team that&#39;s not going to stray far from its roots. Hopefully, we would all be bilingual, but practices would be conducted in Spanish.
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An increasing number of American parents want their children to be bilingual if not multilingual.
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GAZA CITY -- The batteries are the size of a button on a man's shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian students taught by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza City.
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A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages.
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Scientists believe learning a second language alters a part of the brain.
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A group of students working for IBM develops technology that automatically converts the spoken word in British Sign Language.
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Many young people are throwing off their generationâs reputation for slovenly language, and taking up the gauntlet for good grammar.
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Trying to teach parents the skills to communicate with and soothe tantrum-prone children.
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English high schools may teach Mandarin or Arabic instead of EU languages in new curriculum proposals.
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Multi-function phones, webcams and other new technological innovations have transformed the lives of the hard of hearing, delegates at an international congress of the deaf said Tuesday.
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Being bilingual produces changes in the anatomy of the brain, scientists said on Wednesday in finding that could explain why children are so much better than adults at mastering a second language.
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As a child at the Boston School for the Deaf from 1955 to 1967, Penny Braddock couldn&#39;t hear, but she could see.