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尤沙·苏布拉玛尼恩  丁健 《海外英语》2003,(6):24-26

“玛丽,亲爱的,准备好了吗？”桑帕斯在楼道下朝楼上的女儿喊道。“爸,你走吧；我刚洗完头,一时难得干,  相似文献   

Effects of Dialect on American and British Children's Spelling     

Rebecca Treiman  Usha Goswami  Ruth Tincoff  Hilary Leevers 《Child development》1997,68(2):229-245

Two experiments were carried out to compare the spelling of children who speak General American English and children who speak Southern British English. The first dialect is rhotic (/r/may occur after a vowel in a syllable), and the second is nonrhotic (/r/may not occur in this context). Young children's spelling errors reflected the characteristics of their dialect. For example, American children with spelling ages of about 6–7½ often misspelled hurt as "hrt" whereas British children of similar spelling levels were more likely to misspell it as "hut." Such errors were uncommon by spelling ages of greater than 7½. Even at these spelling ages, however, the British children made overgeneralization errors that reflected their dialect. For example, they sometimes spelled bath as "barth" based on the fact that bath contains the same vowel sound as card in their dialect. The results show that phonology plays an important role in children's spelling development.  相似文献   

Educational Neuroscience: Defining a New Discipline for the Study of Mental Representations   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Dénes Sz&#;cs  Usha Goswami 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2007,1(3):114-127

ABSTRACT— Is educational neuroscience a “bridge too far”? Here, we argue against this negative assessment. We suggest that one major reason for skepticism within the educational community has been the inadequate definition of the potential role and use of neuroscience research in education. Here, we offer a provisional definition for the emerging discipline of educational neuroscience as the study of the development of mental representations. We define mental representations in terms of neural activity in the brain. We argue that there is a fundamental difference between doing educational neuroscience and using neuroscience research results to inform education. While current neuroscience research results do not translate into direct classroom applications, educational neuroscience can expand our knowledge about learning, for example, by tracking the normative development of mental representations. We illustrate this briefly via mathematical educational neuroscience. Current capabilities and limitations of neuroscience research methods are also considered.  相似文献   

Allergens/Antigens,Toxins and Polyketides of Important <Emphasis Type="Italic">Aspergillus</Emphasis> Species     

Bhetariya PJ  Madan T  Basir SF  Varma A  Usha SP 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(2):104-119

The medical, agricultural and biotechnological importance of the primitive eukaryotic microorganisms, the Fungi was recognized way back in 1920. Among various groups of fungi, the Aspergillus species are studied in great detail using advances in genomics and proteomics to unravel biological and molecular mechanisms in these fungi. Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus parasiticus, Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus terreus are some of the important species relevant to human, agricultural and biotechnological applications. The potential of Aspergillus species to produce highly diversified complex biomolecules such as multifunctional proteins (allergens, antigens, enzymes) and polyketides is fascinating and demands greater insight into the understanding of these fungal species for application to human health. Recently a regulator gene for secondary metabolites, LaeA has been identified. Gene mining based on LaeA has facilitated new metabolites with antimicrobial activity such as emericellamides and antitumor activity such as terrequinone A from A. nidulans. Immunoproteomic approach was reported for identification of few novel allergens for A. fumigatus. In this context, the review is focused on recent developments in allergens, antigens, structural and functional diversity of the polyketide synthases that produce polyketides of pharmaceutical and biological importance. Possible antifungal drug targets for development of effective antifungal drugs and new strategies for development of molecular diagnostics are considered.  相似文献   

A Rhythmic Musical Intervention for Poor Readers: A Comparison of Efficacy With a Letter‐Based Intervention     

Adeetee Bhide  Alan Power  Usha Goswami 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2013,7(2):113-123

There is growing evidence that children with reading difficulties show impaired auditory rhythm perception and impairments in musical beat perception tasks. Rhythmic musical interventions with poorer readers may thus improve rhythmic entrainment and consequently improve reading and phonological skills. Here we compare the effects of a musical intervention for poor readers with a software intervention of known efficacy based on rhyme training and phoneme‐grapheme learning. The research question was whether the musical intervention would produce gains of comparable effect sizes to the phoneme‐grapheme intervention for children who were falling behind in reading development. Broadly, the two interventions had similar benefits for literacy, with large effect sizes.  相似文献   

Rhymes are important: a comment on Savage     

Usha Goswami 《Journal of Research in Reading》2001,24(1):19-29

Savage (2001) makes 3 basic claims about the scientific database concerning rhyme and analogy in reading. The first is that the relationship between rhyme and reading remains controversial. The second is that there is doubt about the relevance of children’s ability to make orthographic analogies for classroom reading instruction. The third is that training studies in reading have shown that rhyme is not important. These claims are considered in the current paper.  相似文献   

Phonological awareness, vocabulary, and word reading in children who use cochlear implants: does age of implantation explain individual variability in performance outcomes and growth?     

James D  Rajput K  Brinton J  Goswami U 《Journal of deaf studies and deaf education》2008,13(1):117-137

The phonological awareness (PA), vocabulary, and word reading abilities of 19 children with cochlear implants (CI) were assessed. Nine children had an implant early (between 2 and 3.6 years) and 10 had an implant later (between 5 and 7 years). Participants were tested twice over a 12-month period on syllable, rhyme, and phoneme awareness (see James et al., 2005). Performance of CI users was compared against younger hearing children matched for reading level. Two standardized assessments of vocabulary and single word reading were administered. As a group, the children fitted early had better performance outcomes on PA, vocabulary, and reading compared to hearing benchmark groups. The early group had significant growth on rhyme awareness, whereas the late group showed no significant gains in PA over time. There was wide individual variation in performance and growth in the CI users. Two participants with the best overall development were both fitted with an implant late in childhood.  相似文献   

Learning to read     

Rukmini Banerji  Madhav Chavan  Usha Rane 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2005,12(2):177-190

This paper traces the philosophical and programmatic evolution of Pratham's accelerated reading programme ‘Read India’. It outlines the experiences that led to the development of the accelerated reading technique and the organizational contexts in which this approach has been played out.  相似文献   

INTERGENERATING ACTIVITIES AND AGING APPRECIATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN     

Usha Chowdhary  Carol M. Schultz  Peter Hasselriis  Harry A. Kujath  Dolores Penn  Sharon Henson 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(6):541-564

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Fascinating Potential of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Aspergilli</Emphasis>     

Usha Sarma P 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2010,25(4):331-334

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