Sprognyheder

»VRÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆL!« De fleste nybagte forældre har prøvet at stå på hovedet, når deres lille guldklump ikke er til at trøste. Måske vil han have sutten? Måske skal han skiftes? Eller han er måske sulten? Tørstig? Træt?

Godkendelsen kommer efter en længere debat om, hvorvidt gymnasierne må udbyde fremmedsprog som tyrkisk og arabisk på lige fod med de klassiske 2. fremmedsprog.

Vi får ikke en national strategi for fremmedsprog lige nu. Men Uddannelsesministeren mener dog, at regeringen er godt i gang med at skabe rammer, der giver mulighed for mere fremmedsprog og flere fremmedsprog.

Der skal mere sprog på skoleskemaet, hvis vi skal klare os i fremtiden, mener dekan fra Aarhus Universitet.

På de fleste skoler tager man de tosprogede elever ud af klassen for at give dem ekstraundervisning, men det svækker deres faglighed - og deres sprog.

A further 111,000 people use the language outside school at least once a week, but 439,000 never do it · Almost 70% of Gaeltacht dwellers declare themselves as speakers of the Celtic language.

Der skal arbejdes med sproget allerede fra etårsalderen, hvis tosprogede børn skal have en chance i folkeskolen, mener ekspert.

Nogle sprogrevsere klandrer unge for at udtale ord som jeg og kræft forkert, fordi jeg bliver til "ja" og kræft til "kraft". Kritikernes underforståede pointe er selvfølgelig, at de selv har en rigtig udtale med tydeligt "e" og "æ".

Der skal arbejdes mere på at forbedre vuggestue- og børnehavebørnenes sprog, mener De Radikale, der vil bruge millioner på at sikre, at pædagogerne er klædt på til opgaven.

SPROG: Flere folkeskoler skal tilbyde eleverne indvandrersprog som valgfag. Det mener børne- og undervisningsminister Christine Antorini (S), som vil undersøge muligheden for at oprette indvandrersprog som valgfag allerede fra 7. klasse med en afsluttende eksamen.

Konference om kreolsprog I år er det 25 år siden, Alice Stevens døde. Hun var den sidste, der talte sproget negerhollandsk. Et sprog, der på en særlig måde er knyttet til Danmark. Inden længe endda på dansk grund igen, når lingvister fra 28 lande mødes til en konference på Aarhus Universitet i denne måned.

Gode læseevner er ikke bare vigtige i skolen, de er helt grundlæggende for at de unge skal kunne gøre sig gældende på arbejdsmarkedet. Derfor skal de unges, og især drengenes, dalende læselyst tages alvorligt, og der skal gøres noget ved problemet, siger de danske ministre Manu Sareen og Christine Antorini.

Dyslexics' main problem is phonetics. That is one of the chief results after a new comprehensive meta-analysis of the findings from more than 235 studies on reading disorders.

Säuglinge sind viel klüger als gedacht. Kinder lernen schon im Mutterleib. Bevor sie selbst sprechen, wissen sie schon viel über Sprache.

John Bowman, of Leaver Road, Henley, says he is able to greet people in 49 languages and is “working on a few more”. He said: “I’m a walking phrase book. I don’t consider myself clever — I don’t even know my own mobile phone number — I just have a knack for it.”

A New York teenager taught himself to speak over a dozen languages. How did he do it?

Udlændinge har svært ved at lære sproget, fordi de ikke møder danskerne. Sprogskoler prøver at bryde isen ved at trække på 4000 frivillige

En hel del skoler landet over har benyttet sig af, at de nu har mulighed for at begynde undervisningen i engelsk allerede fra første klasse. Det er en god idé.

Engelskundervisning for børn helt ned til 6-års alderen er en klar fordel, mener professor.

Deaf children in Viet Nam will soon have access to opportunities to learn their native sign language through the projectIntergenerational Deaf Education Outreach, which was launched today in Ha Noi.

We depend on a barrage of standardized tests to assess everything from aptitude to intelligence. But do they provide an accurate forecast when it comes to something as complex as language? A study by Diane Pesco, an assistant professor in Concordia's Department of Education, and co-author Daniela O'Neill, published earlier this year in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, shows that the Language Use Inventory (LUI) does.

Modern technology can save languages as well as destroy them. This is not a fate which appeals to K. David Harrison, of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. But Dr Harrison is an optimist. He believes information technology—something seen by many people as a threat to linguistic diversity—might actually turn out to be its saviour.

The success of a Native American language immersion school is growing. The school has more students than it ever has and they are teaching their parents what they are learning.

Some of us feel that we are no longer making progress in a language that we have learned. Others of us who have known and used a language for years may realize that we are no longer using it very much, or at all. We no longer need it to interact with others, nor do we need it in our studies or at work, or in our social activities. Whatever the reason, we may have become dormant bilinguals and we may even feel that we are starting to forget the language

Undervisningsminister lover plagiattjek for at fange snyd. Hvordan oversætter man 'der er ingen ko på isen' til engelsk? Hvad er temaerne i Hemingways centrale værker? Og hvornår døde Tycho Brahe? Den slags spørgsmål kan elever på gymnasiale uddannelser snart få hjælp fra internettet til at svare på. Som de eneste i verden har de allerede mulighed for at gå til skriftlig eksamen med internetadgang i seks fag, og nu udvides det til 11.

Computational models decode and reconstruct neural responses to speech. To analyse the data from the electrode recordings, the researchers used an algorithm designed to extract key features of spoken words, such as the time period and volume changes between syllables.

Where is speech perception in the brain? In 1881 Karl Wernicke described patients with lesions in the left temporal lobeand a problem in understanding spoken language. Since this discovery, people have commonly used“Wernicke’s area” as a term to describe the neural location of speechperception. The notion of what brains areas might comprise Wernicke’s area evolved over the next century, with a consensus emerging that Wernicke’s area,and thus speech perception, was associated with to the left posterior superiortemporal sulcus, at the back end of the temporal lobe

 Discussing the concept of recursion is like a rite of passage for anyone interested in language evolution: there are two definitions of recursion: (1) embeddedness of phrases within other phrases, which entails keeping track of long-distance dependencies among phrases; (2) the specification of the computed output string itself, including meta-recursion, where recursion is both the recipe for an utterance and the overarching process that creates and executes the recipe. There is a debate surrounding a small Amazonian tribe called the Pirahã.

Kollegahjælp er lavet i samarbejde mellem Dansk Metal, Cadpeople og Bifrost med støtte fra Beskæftigelses-ministeriet. Det overordnede formål med informationsmaterialet er at integrere udenlandske kolleger på danske arbejdspladser. På hjemmesiden er fakta om forholdene på det danske arbejdsmarked og interaktive spil, som kan skabe debat om kultur og uskrevne normer på danske arbejdspladser. Der er også ordlister og spil som en hjælp til sprog-indlæring.

New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development compared to females. The research, published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, focused on umbilical cord blood to explore the presence of testosterone when the language-related regions of a fetus' brain are undergoing a critical period of growth.

Center for Børnesprog ved Syddansk Universitet det amerikanske program, Read it again! i 128 børnehaver. Formålet er at få ny viden om sprogindsatser i Danmark samt om hvordan pædagoger bedst understøtter børns forskellige behov.

Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say. Findings appear this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers don't respond to their own voice in quite the same way, according to a report published online on December 22 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

Deaf people who use sign language are quicker at recognizing and interpreting body language than hearing non-signers, according to new research from investigators at UC Davis and UC Irvine.

Gestures make it easier for people to learn a language and could speed up foreign language learning.

New light has been shed on the way children learn to speak -- contradicting what researchers previously believed -- that could lead to advances in how speech-related disabilities are treated.

LUIS VON AHN claims he can translate Wikipedia - all 2 billion words of it - from English into Spanish in just 80 hours. What's more, he will not have to pay anyone to do the work. His secret weapon is Duolingo, a free language tutorial website that doubles as a paid-for translation service. The deal is that users get to learn a language while simultaneously helping to translate website content.

"Kampen om sproget", som er en del af kampagnen "Gang i sproget", er et digitalt materiale til arbejdet med det mundtlige sprog i 7.-10. klasse. Fem udsendelser, som blev sendt i 2011, og som er produceret af Danmarks Radio, af knap 20 minutters varighed danner baggrund for dette meget spændende materiale, som består af en lærervejledning og opgaver til hver udsendelse.

In “Babel No More”, Michael Erard has written the first serious book about the people who master vast numbers of languages—or claim to. A journalist with some linguistics training, Mr Erard is not a hyperpolyglot himself (he speaks some Spanish and Chinese), but he approaches his topic with both wonder and a healthy dash of scepticism.

Hvert år på denne tid tales og skrives der om nytårsfortsætter, og for hvert nytårsfortsæt er der vel 2-3 sprogrøgtere der ikke undlader at gøre opmærksom på at det altså hedder nytårsforsæt – uden det midterste t. Det sure budskab er at ordet kommer af at man sætter sig noget for, og derfor er der tale om et forsæt.En

New Font Helps Dyslexics Read Dutch researcher designs distinct characters into "Dyslexie" to make it more difficult for dyslexics to rotate, swap and mirror letters and numbers.

An inventory of actions in the field of multilingualism was published in 2008 in parallel with the communication ‘Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared commitment’. This staff working document maps actions undertaken by a number of Commission departments in the field. The 2011 update of this inventory contains a contribution from the Commission departments grouped together in the Inter Service Group on Multilingualism.

From the moment they're born, babies are highly attuned to communicate and motivated to interact. And they're great listeners.

Et undervisningssamarbejde for 6.klassetrin (årskurs) over Øresund om den fælles dansk/svenske historie er blevet en sproglig succes. En rapport fra august fastslår, at fastslår, at eleverne i projektet har forholdsvis nemt ved at forstå nabolandets (grannlandets) sprog

På Pilegårdsskolen i Tårnby vinder gratis online resurser frem som elevernes foretrukne præsentationsværktøj. Her skriver de en fransk tekst til en talende avatar frem for til en planche i pap og papir.

Langkær Gymnasium uddanner verdensborgere. Første august startede Langkær Gymnasium en international linje, hvor unge med 15 forskellige nationaliteter deltager i undervisningen.

Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, researchers at the University of Chicago have found.

Langt flere elever begynder i gymnasiet, derfor har mange svært ved læsningen,forklarer lærerformand.

Preschool children with relatively poor language skills improve more if they are placed in classrooms with high-achieving students, a new study found.

Parents who joke and pretend with their toddlers are giving their children a head start in terms of life skills. Most parents are naturals at playing the fool with their kids, says a new research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). However parents who feel they may need a little help in doing this can learn to develop these life skills with their tots.

While television is on, there’s less talking, and talk time is very important in language development

Børn lærer bedst, når de leger. Det er grundtanken i computerspillet ABCity, hvor børn i alderen 4-7 år leger sig til læring om ord og bogstaver. Spillet kom i februar og er kåret til "Årets Talent" ved Danish Game Awards 2011. Lise Møller fra UCC var med til at udvikle spillet.

Smid din dårlige samvittighed over, at den sidst læste bog var manualen til komfuret og at du sidst tog børnene med på biblioteket engang i 2002. Læsning er meget mere end tekst og bøger. Det er i hvert fald Marianne Aaen Thorsens pointe. Hun er læsekonsulent i Fredensborg Kommune.

Research has established that taking folic acid supplements during pregnancy reduces the risk of bearing a child with neural tube defects, but little is known about the relationship between prenatal folic acid and neurodevelopment after birth. A collaborative study between investigators at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has now reported that mothers who took folic acid supplements from 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception reported a significantly lower prevalence of severe language delay in their children at age 3. The study was based in a unique Norwegian pregnancy cohort often referred to as "MoBa."

Use of folic acid supplements by women in Norway in the period 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception was associated with a reduced risk of the child having severe language delay at age 3 years, according to a study in the October 12 issue of JAMA.

Föreningarna Nordens Förbund och Snöball Film har tilldelats Nordiska ministerrådets pris för goda språkverktyg. Båda vinnarbidragen är innovativa webbplattformer som ska styrka barn och ungas språkförståelse i Norden. Den totala prissumman är 500 000 DKK.

Lån en sprogpose på Egedal Bibliotekerne. Poserne er fyldt med bøger, der kan gøre det nemmere for små børn at lære dansk

1. GETTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER: REFLECTIONS ON LANGUAGE CONTACT, LINGUISTICS, AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC Monday 24 October, kl 14 –16, Aarhus University, room 1325-140 2. WHOLE WORD MORPHOLOGY Tuesday 25 October, kl. 12-14, Aarhus University, room 1412-229 3. REFLECTIONS ON ENGLISH IN INDIA AND INDIAN ENGLISH Wednesday 26 October, kl. 12-14, Aarhus University, room 1410-136

Der er grund til at styrke danskernes kendskab til tysk sprog og kultur! Studieskolen sætter fokus på tysk sprog, erhverv og kultur i Dansk Designcenter.

Students who in addition to their traditional German language courses are taught other courses in German end up with both a stronger vocabulary and a better communicative ability, according to a new doctoral thesis in German from the University of Gothenburg.

Canadian scientists who specialize in learning, memory and language in children have found exciting evidence that pre-schoolers can improve their verbal intelligence after only 20 days of classroom instruction using interactive, music-based cognitive training cartoons.

Ekstra ansøgningsfrist i Nordplus' Sprog- og Kulturprogram den 15. oktober 2011. Fristen gælder for projekter som begynder fra og med januar 2012. Der er 427.000 EURO til rådighed.

Fremmedspråklige barn trenger over seks år på å komme opp på samme språklige nivå som innfødte, ifølge spansk forskning.

It is common to hear that the earlier you start studying a foreign language the easier you will learn it. Do you agree? Share your ideas in the comments!

Henry Winkler, who played the Fonz in the classic US sitcom Happy Days, has been appointed an honorary OBE for his educational work on dyslexia in the UK. Winkler received the honour at the British embassy in Washington DC. The actor-turned-children's author, who was diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult, said he was "overwhelmed" to have his work recognised.

Watching children on the playground, we see them run, climb, slide, get up, and do it all again. While their movements are continuous, we language-users can easily divide them up and name each one. But what about people -- babies -- who don't yet have words? How do they make sense of a world in motion?

Since the first television screens lit up our living rooms scientists have been studying its affect on young children. Now scientists in Ohio have compared mother-child communication while watching TV to reading books or playing with toys to reveal the impact on children's development. The results, published in Human Communication Research, show that watching TV can lead to less interaction between parents and children, with a detrimental impact on literacy and language skills.

Det danske Undervisningsministerium inviterer til en nordisk konference om nabosprogsforståelse med særligt fokus på dansk. Konferencen er en del af Nordisk Sprogkampagne, der gennemføres i 2010 og 2011. Konferencen arrangeres i samarbejde med Nordisk Sprogkoordination og Dansk Sprognævn.

Kompetent musikpædagogisk arbejde styrker ikke alene elevernes musikalske evner. Det øger også deres sproglige kompetencer, viser et musikprojekt på Søndermarkskolen i Horsens. 40 procent af indbyggerne i distriktet har en ikke-europæisk baggrund.

På finska längre ner/Suomeksi alhalla/Shortly in English belowEn grupp för de som önskar få åtminstone två språk nästan gratis. En gång i månaden så anordnas ett gruppsamtal i Skype där finnar, svenskar, danskar, norrmän och Islänningar av alla dess sorter kan öva upp den nordiska språkförståelsen med varandra

Modersmålsundervisningen bliver genindført i Odense Kommune efter 9 års afskaffelse, siden 2002. "Vi skal behandle sprog som en ressource og ikke som en svaghed". Fortæller Tim Andersen, politisk ordfører og byrådsmedlem for Socialdemokraterne i Odense byråd.

HJERNEKLUBBEN - Med ny metode kan du lettere lære deg et språk i høst.

Hur uppstod det mänskliga språket? Var det så att vi kravlade oss upp ur haven, utvecklade lungor istället för gälar, och – pang! – där på stranden låg en grammatikbok? Efter ett par generationer hade de klokaste i klanen börjat dechiffrera bokens skrivtecken. Då kunde de berätta för de andra, inte bara hur man med hjälp av tungrörelser och diafragma ropar varningen ”Spring! Den där ormen är giftig!”, utan också att man inte ska säga ”större än mig” eftersom än är en subjunktion som måste följas av subjektsformen jag.

Folkpartiet och Liberala ungdomsförbundet (Luf) dammat av sitt förslag om att införa språktest för alla som vill bli svenska medborgare. Sveriges radio P4 Sjuhärad ringde då upp ordföranden för Luf i Borås och testade hennes kunskaper om språk. Som ni själva kan höra i intervjun gick det inte särskilt bra. Hon kan varken ordklasser eller satslära, vilket lett till stor skadeglädje i många läger. ”Hur kan man vilja språktesta nya medborgare när förbundets egna modersmålstalare har så dåliga språkkunskaper?” är givetvis frågan som ställs.

I starten af ugen var der en artikel i politiken om at danske børn lærer deres modersmål langsommere end børn i andre lande, fordi vi har så mange vokaler.

Danske børn er længere om at lære talesprog end jævnaldrende i andre lande.