by BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas

Do infants judge others’ language proficiency?

Monolingual infants expect others to understand only one language, an assumption not held by bilingual infants, a study by researchers at New York University and McGill University has found. “Our results not only offer insight into infants’ perception of linguistic abilities, but, more importantly, may help us better understand whom they see as good communication… Read More

by BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas

How information moves between cultures

  Networks that map strength of connections between languages predict global influence of their speakers. By analyzing data on multilingual Twitter users and Wikipedia editors and on 30 years’ worth of book translations in 150 countries, researchers at MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Aix Marseille University have developed network maps that they say represent… Read More

by BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas

BIRD GEI: Research reveals panorama of English language acquisition in Brazil in 2013

BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas is releasing its 9th Productivity Research in Language Acquisition in the Brazil. We follow the annual performance indicators and test results of approximately 3.000 employees sponsored by several companies, mapping and quantifying the progress and productivity of students. In the current research, which covers results from 2013, we… Read More