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(Image via Pixabay) A few short weeks ago I consigned my old HuntingEnglish blog to the electronic dustbin and emerged phoenix-like with my new blog – www.theconfidentteacher.com. Unfortunately, not all my …

Tom Sherrington@teacherhead·

Engineering Success. A positive alternative to generic mindset messaging https://teacherhead.com/2019/06/01/engineering-success-a-positive-alternative-to-generic-mindset-messaging/

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

There is consistent evidence now of the crucial role of turn-taking and early vocabulary development. Rich early language is so crucial.

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Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham·

New meta-analysis on parental speech & child language (aka 30 million word gap) concludes that complexity (syntactic variety & vocab diversity) is a better predictor than word volume ($) https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13508?campaign=wolearlyview

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