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Sebastián de Aparicio en la Matlalcuéyatl: El Misterio de la Inscripción

En el trabajo de campo en comunidades cuando nos topamos con artefactos, a veces los hallazgos dan pistas para acercarnos a problemas de investigación en que no hemos pensado. En los pueblos de habla náhuatl ubicados en las faldas de la Matlalcuéyatl (Malinche, o Malintzi) hemos atendido los temas relacionados…

Puebla

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Sebastián de Aparicio en la Matlalcuéyatl: El Misterio de la Inscripción
Sebastián de Aparicio en la Matlalcuéyatl: El Misterio de la Inscripción
Puebla

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Writing and the literary heritage of the Americas: What have we learned?

The following review is an excerpt from: “Literacy and the language awareness hypothesis,” published in Writing Systems Research, v.11, n.2, pp. 176–187 With the growing emphasis on cross-language and cross-writing system research, we have begun to converge upon principles of literacy and literacy learning that are foundational, principles that should…

Mayan Language

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Writing and the literary heritage of the Americas: What have we learned?
Writing and the literary heritage of the Americas: What have we learned?
Mayan Language

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Hip-hop as poetry

The following discussion of literary language in popular culture is an excerpt from the paper: “Verbal art across language and culture: Poetry as music” that appeared in Neohelicon, v. 48, n. 2, pp. 539–552 (2021). Among the expressions of verbal art in popular culture today, we find the clearest example…

Hip Hip

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Hip-hop as poetry
Hip-hop as poetry
Hip Hip

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Aug 17, 2022

Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective — book review

Review of Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (2021) by Suzanne Flynn and Gita Martohardjono (eds.) MIT Press. For educators working in the field of second language learning, staying current with the basic research in bilingualism and crosslinguistic interaction will help us to better understand the progress of learners. This…

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Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective — a review
Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective — a review

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Jul 28, 2022

New Approaches to the Assessment of Reading and Writing: Focus on Language Awareness

Silvia-Maria Chireac, Norbert Francis & John McClure The following report is an abbreviated version of “Awareness of form and pattern in literacy assessment: Classroom applications for first and second language,” published in The Reading Matrix, v. 19, n. 1, pp. 20–34 (2019). How educators understand literacy learning determines the methods…

Literacy

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New Approaches to the Assessment of Reading and Writing: Focus on Language Awareness
New Approaches to the Assessment of Reading and Writing: Focus on Language Awareness
Literacy

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Aug 11, 2021

Narrative Cognition and Narrative Development

Review of Story, Listening and Experience in Early Childhood by Donna Schatt & Patrick Ryan Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 The relationship between language and literacy is a research problem of many years of progress in cognitive science, especially in regard to school (or academic-related) literacy. This is only one of the…

Narrative

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Narrative Cognition and Narrative Development
Narrative Cognition and Narrative Development
Narrative

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May 10, 2021

How the progressive movement will be rebuilt

The discussion of pressing social problems that we confront today is in crisis. Deepening this crisis is the fact that the principles that have guided the progressive movement over the years are today in disarray. In large part, in many quarters, they are in shambles. Two recent books, Cynical Theories…

American Revolution

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How the progressive movement will be rebuilt
How the progressive movement will be rebuilt
American Revolution

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Norbert Francis

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Norbert Francis works on problems of language and culture, research in Latin America and East Asia. norbertfrancis501@gmail.com

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