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Increasing Academic Success 1) A new research indicates that intrinsic motivation (doing something because it is inherently interesting or enjoyable), and thus higher quality learning, flourishes in contexts that satisfy human needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. Students experience competence …

Bilingualism and Age Paragraph 5 The authors propose that the ability to concentrate on a stimulus while ignoring irrelevant information might be the same cognitive control processes used when speaking two languages. All the bilinguals used their two languages everyday …

Bilingualism and Age Paragraph 1 Most people will agree that to solve problems two heads are better than one. The same logic can be true for retaining cognitive processes as we get older. Fluency in two languages seems to prevent …

Noisy Places and Speech 1- A child may take longer to learn to talk if he or she spends a lot of time near a loud TV or in a noisy day care center, a new study suggests. 2- Infants can’t differentiate spoken …

Patients and mobile phones 1- Hospital patients will be able to use cell phones from now on. Health minister is informing health institutions to let patients use mobiles if they do not interfere with equipment, privacy or cause disturbance. 2- The minister …

Passive Smoking 1- A great percentage of families have no limits for children’s exposure to tobacco smoke. A study involving 1,770 parents and guardians in New York and New Jersey finds that in almost 50% of homes and more than 50% of …

Kids’ Nutrition 1- Sharon Hoerr, a nutrition researcher from Michigan State University, and Jason Mendoza, a pediatrician from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, are studying the complex nutritional situation of the food that kids eat. 2- Just a small …