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Level 1 of learning a language memorises sounds and shapes

sounds

A first phonics programme
http://www.sounds-write.co.uk/downloads.asp
Accents
http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml
Accents & dialects of the UK – British Library
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/
Common pronunciation mistakes by First Language
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/phono.html
English intonation in the British Isles – Oxford University
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/IViE/ 
English pronunciation – tip of the day – University College
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/eptotd/tiphome.htm
English pronunciation/listening exercises
http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/Page1205.aspx
English sounds
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/phonology.htm
Homophones
http://www.taupecat.com/personal/homophones/
Pronunciation mistakes by non-English speakers
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/phono.html
Pronunciation poem – British Council
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-poems-pronunciation-poem.htm
Supra-segmental phonology – rhythm, intonation, stress timing
http://www.thormay.net/lxesl/tesol/intonation/intonation1.htm
Teaching intonation and stress patterns
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/esl0108.html
Teaching Speaking & Listening – classroom discussions - Dfes
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/site/t/index.htm
The sounds of English – web tutorials – University College
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/tutorials.html
Learning sounds
http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/BrownsStages.htm
Current research into infant learning Jenny Saffran
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/infantlearning/current.htm
Mother’s speaking to babies
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode2/babytalk/index.html
Homophones
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/homophon.html
Prosody
http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk./pow/powin.htm
For singers and actors
http://www.british-voice-association.com/
English prosody
http://www.n2hos.com/acm/pagetwo.html

 

Sounds  |  Shapes  |  Storing Language Learning

shapes

Examples of phonetic writing
http://earthlanguage.org/english/phone/example.htm
Spelling it right
http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/
THRASS - Teaching Handwriting, Reading And Spelling Skills
http://www.thrass.co.uk/sc5.htm
Homographs
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/homogrph.html
Dyslexia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/tutors/expertcolumn/dyslexia/
Dyscalculia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/tutors/expertcolumn/dyscalculia/
http://www.dyscalculia.me.uk/

Sounds  |  Shapes  |  Storing Language Learning

storing language learning

Brain and five and a half sense (proprioception)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp_pr.html
Brain and the sixth sense
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/7036
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/05.20/sixth.sense.html
Brain scans – sounds and shapes
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/e110.html
Connectionism – with experiments in language learning
http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/connectionism/
Cross talking between the sense
http://www.temple.edu/ispr/examples/ex01_12_14.html
Finding out your learning style
http://www.open2.net/survey/learningstyles/learningstyles.htm
Instant replay –building long-term Memory
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20001012032303data_trunc_sys.shtml
Language, learning and working memory
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/memory-language2
Learning styles in business organisations
http://www.rapidbi.com/created/learningstyles.html
Learning styles questionnaire
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
Memory
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/ericsson.long.html
Memory and sleep
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=experts-short-term-memory-to-long-term
Neuro linguistic programming and language learning
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/methodology/nlp.shtml
Short term and long term memory
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/memory.html
Short-term memory and vocabulary acquisition
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/research/speech-language/stm.html
Short-term/Working Memory International Journal of Psychology 1999 34 (5/6)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xyejZng3brcC&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=language+and+short+
to+long+term+memory&source=web&ots=MeLcVbr4tr&sig=5MoJBjC1IQLnAB4uhyTiSgIuzOE&hl=en#PPP1,M1

The nervous system as constructing self and reality
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/reflections/upa/UPApaper.html
Where the brain makes sense of speech
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/cp-wtb121407.php
Working memory, connectionism and second language learning
http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/papers/connect.html
Working memory, language and reading
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/memory-language
English language self-assessment
http://www.linguanet-europa.org/plus/en/home.jsp
http://www.dialang.org/intro.htm
Definitions of terms in linguistics including IPA chart
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/sid/sidhome.htm

Sounds  |  Shapes  |  Storing Language Learning