Temas de interesse, pesquisas e estudos sobre aquisição de segunda língua e educação bilíngue
A recent discussion circulating on social media examined Duolingo’s shift toward an “AI-first” strategy. The post alleged that the company dismissed human contractors, relied heavily on AI to generate lesson content, produced unusual or inappropriate sentences, lost long-time users, and experienced a 64% decline in its stock price. While the narrative gained significant traction, several… Read More
Reaching one million views may seem common on social media, but for us, this milestone has a special meaning: our content is educational, focused on language learning, and entirely organic. Each view represents a genuine interest in our website’s content and in BIRD GEI’s mission to support the development of language skills. Our blog was… Read More
Alcançar 1 milhão de visualizações pode parecer comum nas redes sociais, mas para nós esse marco tem um significado especial: nosso conteúdo é educacional, focado no aprendizado de idiomas e totalmente orgânico. Cada visualização representa interesse genuíno pelo conteúdo do nosso site e pela missão da BIRD GEI de apoiar o desenvolvimento de competências linguísticas.… Read More
ChatGPT thinks for me, therefore I am A teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment to introduce themselves. When the assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Arkansas shared the experience on X, formerly Twitter, in a post that has now garnered 3.5 million views, some replies argued that students would obviously… Read More
Summary: Researchers discovered that the way we perceive and describe colors is influenced by the languages we speak. In a study with the Tsimane’ society from the Bolivian Amazon, bilingual individuals who learned Spanish as a second language began distinguishing colors differently than monolingual Tsimane’ speakers. Notably, bilingual Tsimane’ individuals started using separate words for blue… Read More
There are numerous benefits associated with having a bilingual brain. Here are some of the most important ones: Improved cognitive function: Studies have shown that bilingual individuals have better cognitive control, working memory, and executive function compared to monolingual individuals. This means that they are better able to multitask, make decisions, and solve problems. Delayed… Read More
Húmus, chewbacca e umbigo. Estas são apenas algumas das milhares de palavras que os cientistas da Universidade Duke decodificaram meticulosamente em mais de 2.000 horas de vida diária de bebês. Recentemente, eles usaram esses dados para determinar se a quantidade de linguagem que as crianças ouvem pode explicar por que as meninas têm vocabulários maiores… Read More
Source: Duke University Summary: Hummus. Chewbacca. Belly button. These are just a few of the thousands of words scientists painstakingly decoded from over 2,100 hours of recorded conversations to determine if the amount of language kids hear explains why girls have bigger vocabularies early in life. It doesn’t. Instead, the scientists found that caregivers just… Read More
O site das Nações Unidas*, por ocasião das comemorações do Dia Internacional da Língua Materna (International Mother Language Day) que acontece todos os anos no dia 21 de fevereiro, entrevistou a Dra. Eleonore Smalle, pesquisadora de pós-doutorado na Universidade de Ghent (Bélgica) e professora palestrante na Universidade de Tilburg (Holanda), sobre os mecanismos de cognição… Read More
O reputado jornal The New York Times publicou esta semana um artigo intitulado “’Parentese’ Is a Truly Lingua Franca, Study Finds’. O artigo foi traduzido para o português pelo UOL com o título “O ‘mamanhês’ é de fato uma língua franca”. Em um estudo transcultural ambicioso os pesquisadores descobriram que adultos de todo o mundo… Read More
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