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More pairwork, said the students. Two researchers in Egypt found that carefully managing pairwork made a big difference to helping their learners feel more confident about speaking English.
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🎵 Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say Professors Giovanni Di Liberto and Usha Goswami.

👶 Phonetic information – the smallest sound elements of speech – has long been thought to be the basis of language learning in babies.

🍼 But a new study found that babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old – which researchers say is too late to form the foundation of language.

🥁 Instead, babies learn from rhythmic information – the changing emphasis of syllables in speech – which unlike phonetic information, can be heard in the womb.

Read more: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/why-reading-nursery-rhymes-and-singing-to-babies-may-help-them-to-learn-language?utm_campaign=research&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Photo: Babies wearing 'head cap' to measure electrical brain activity
Credit: Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge

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