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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 4 In all three studies, monolingual and bilingual adults who were compatible on background experiences and cognitive measures completed the Simon task differently. Young and old bilingual people were faster than test takers who spoke one …

Bilingualism and Age Paragraph 4 In all three studies, monolingual and bilingual adults who were compatible on background experiences and cognitive measures completed the Simon task differently. Young and old bilingual people were faster than test takers who spoke one …

Bilingualism and Age Paragraph 3 Three trials compared the performance of a total of 104 monolingual and bilingual middle-aged adults (30-59 year olds) and 50 older adults (60-88 year olds) on the Simon Task. The Simon Task measures the reaction …

Bilingualism and Age Paragraph 2 It was determined that learned information and habitual procedures (crystallized intelligence) hold up well as people get older, said author Ellen Bialystok of York University, but abilities that depend on someone’s attention on a task (fluid intelligence) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …