When I finished graduate school, in 1976, there was a job shortage in Canada for Ph.D.’s. The only position I found was with a research project studying second language acquisition in school children.

我从未想过双语到底是好是坏，我的博士学位主修的是心理学，研究小孩如何学习语言，1976年我毕业的时候，那时在加拿大非常少的工作适合心理学方面的人才，我唯一能找到的职位是一个关于少儿语言学习的研究项目。

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Develop a sense of the English language and children 's musical sense of rhythm.

在英语中，培养幼儿对音乐节奏的规律。

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Language and communicating problems of autistic children are seriously prominent. Abnormal degree of language usually is the only standard to determine seriousness of autistic children 's illness.

自闭症儿童的语言及交际问题非常突出，语言失常的程度往往是测定自闭症儿童病症严重性的唯一标准。

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Now,just two do. That's because - while Spanish is still the language in many homes - the children of immigrants from Cuba and other Latin nations speak English in school and on the street, wear American clothes and prefer upbeat Anglo rock music to their parents' dreamy, old Spanish ballads.

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We want to know as curious people how children learn language, what we find attractive or unattractive, and what's the basis for mental illness.

人类的好奇心驱使我们去探索,儿童如何学习语言,什么会被感知为迷人或丑陋,心理疾病的成因又是什么

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And more recently, there's been case studies of children who acquire sign language.

而近期更有些关于儿童学习手语的,个案研究

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One of the areas identified for early years intervention was children's language development.

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Children learning Jersey's native language need more opportunities to speak it, says a promoter of Jerriais.

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As we celebrate Room to Read's tenth anniversary, we can look back on building more than 1, 200 schools and10, 000 libraries, publishing 433 local language children's books in 22 languages and supporting almost 9, 000 girls through our Girls' Education Program.

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