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Herramienta Informática para detectar trastornos en lenguaje infantil
Un equipo del grupo de investigación de Sistemas Telemáticos para la Sociedad de la Información y el Conocimiento de laUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) ha desarrollado una herramienta informática, llamada Gades, que permite automatizar el proceso de detección de trastornos del lenguaje en niños de entre cero y seis años. Según sus creadores, se trata […]
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Las malas lenguas/ aprender español a pie de calle
El Mundo Español a pie de calle Han convertido la enseñanza del español en una excusa para hacer turismo por Madrid.
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French textbooks: Class struggle
Hostility to free markets starts at school Jul 6th 2013 | PARIS |From the print edition BOTH relief and tears will greet the results of France’s school-leaving baccalauréat exam on July 5th. With breathtaking efficiency, the entire country’s exam papers are corrected and marked within just two weeks. Founded in 1808 by Napoleon, the bac is an entry ticket to university as […]
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Teenage hyperpolyglot: Shrug like a Frenchman and frown like a Russian
TIMOTHY DONER looks like an ordinary American teenager. Medium-height and slight, he arrives in a grey T-shirt and jeans. As he is being miked for his interview, our producer asks him a http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/07/teenage-hyperpolyglot-0 question to get him talking, so that she can check his voice levels:
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Research trends in Intercultural Pragmatics
The volume edited by I.Kecskes & J. Romero-Trillo, Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics, will be published by Mouton de Gruyter in October 2013. The Table of Contents will be available soon.
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Faiths, town halls and language From Babel to Pentecost (the Economist 14/6/2013)
LOCAL authorities in Britain spend a lot of money trying to make themselves understood. The council in Southwark, part of south London, offers translation into 70 languages;