Archive for August, 2005
05-08-31
Tags:cross culture Education IRA literacy Paperville Teaching A recent report on Reading Research Quarterly provide impressionistic pictures of literacy education in different cultures. Compiled by Stergios […]
Reading Research Quarterly : July/August/September 2005 : International Reports on Literacy Research: Required National, Regional, and State Testing Programs: China, Japan, Iran, Estonia, Chile
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05-08-29
Tags: Alphabet Synthesis Machine Font Archive […]
What you see are sample fonts from the Art21 - Alphabet Synthesis Machine Font Archive. I have never seen something as cool and as timely as this. (I will explain the "timely" part in a moment.)
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05-08-26
Tags: It does make somethings faster, […]
Took me a while to make eAccelerator to work on my site. The trick was to (a) download the correct version of the precompiled DLL that matches the version of my PHP and (b) find the correct PHP.INI file to edit. The latter turns out to be a bigger challenge.
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05-08-26
Tags:Education gifted education The Chapel Hill Schools are reconsidering the criterion for "giftedness." So far I heard from email of concerned parents, they will move from a 99-percentile rule to a 3-standard deviation criterion, which — somebody calculated — corresponds to 99.85%.
[Update: the Gifted Ed Work Force Report, Nov, 2004 is here, which cited […]
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05-08-24
Tags: Hannes Rakoczy Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology […]
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05-08-24
Tags: Dog research at the Max-Planck Institute is strictly observational; […]
I didn’t know Michael Tomasello’s labs do Research with Dogs. Of course, Franklin Chang is not there to study canines.
Research:
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(Research, Odds'n'Ends, Psychology) | 0
05-08-23
Tags: Dick Nisbett does eye tracking?
BBC NEWS | Health | Different view for East and West
Different view for East and West
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Psychology) | 0
05-08-23
Tags: Andrew Gelman picked on a 2002 SPS paper (below). He did some clever quick estimations of the size the of effect. Psychologists, on the other hand, are concerned primarily at showing that something is significant. If it’s (statistically) significant, then it’s real, and real money and efforts should be spend to study it.
Yes, I’ve […]
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Statstics) | 0
05-08-23
Tags: A fairly biased paper, it nonetheless touches on the interesting issue of morphonology and characters. Do speakers in Mainland think "後來"的"後"与"皇 后"的"后" have the same "mearning?" What about children? 汉字简化，得不偿失
张钊
恢复同音假借——文字发展中的退步 以意定音，以音定形，见其字而知其音，读其音而明其意，这是汉字的一大特点。古人注释文字，往往只需指明某字在某处的读音，意思就一目了然了。
上古时，字数少，又没有字典，写作时找不到确当的字，用读音相同的字来代替，这就是令人头痛的"同音假借"。… 后来字数多了，有了字典，字的读音和意思渐渐地固定下来，借代就越来越 少了。即便是多音字，他们的读音和字意也是相对稳定的。尽管如此，一字多音，从来就是汉字中难弄的部分，精于文字的人都有意避免它。后代的人再用同音字来 借代，就是文法上的错误了，章太炎把它叫做"借声"，其实就是我们今天说的"别字"。简化汉字恰恰把很多意思毫不相干，而仅仅读音类似的几个字，用一个笔 画较少的字来顶替，人为地造成"别字"的使用。比如，"只有"的"只"和"一隻"的"隻"；"頭髮"的"髮"与"发展"的"发"；"後來"的"後"与"皇 后"的"后"；"干戈"的"干"与"才幹"的"幹"等等。这样的例子，不胜枚举。这是文字发展中的退步！
中华民族的文化经历过两次大的文字改革：两千多年前，秦始皇强制推行秦地的文字，一举废掉了大多数知识分子习用的六国文字③；两千年以下，我们 造出几千个新字，一举废掉了延用两千年的汉字，两次都出于政治的动机。… 汉字的简化和白话文的日语化（我们本来不是没有白话文，《金瓶梅》、《红楼梦》全是用白话写成的），如同两把快刀，再一次割断了文化的发展。今天大陆人 中，认识未简化的汉字，能读中文书的人，凤毛麟角。
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05-08-23
Tags: This is a rare article in Korean that still uses a combination of Hangul and Hanjia. It reads like Japanese, with spaces, though. 韓國語의 豫定된 危機
“文字改革”, “文化革命” 50년, 엄청난 損失을 내고 조용히 幕을 내리고 있다. 破壞가 천천히 소리 없이 進行되니 韓國語와 文化의 危機를 皮膚로 느끼지 못하고 있다. 오히려 大失敗를 正反對로 大成功이라고 하는 無責任한 言說이 如前히 […]
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05-08-23
Tags: This is an interesting paper from many perspectives — the fact that it was apparently written by a Japanese national but praised the CCCP. Here is an list of Kanji in JIS that is not in the GB collection. If I need pseudo characters in the future, these would come handy. 中日汉字文化的异同点………村田忠禧
据本次调查结果，我们搞清楚了下面的数据∶日语人名、地名所使用的3,276个汉字中，有259个中国的GB编码中没有，在此按照使用频率由高到低的顺序列举如下∶ […]
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(Research, Linguistics) | 1
05-08-23
Tags:Chinese Education History Linguistics literacy pin yin Research 《小学汉语拼音教学研究》 is a collection of papers from a PinYin Instruction conference held in Dalian, China in 2001. Most of the papers were written by teachers and county educational institutes. Few touched on theoretical issues. Nonetheless it make available some of the arguments […]
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(Research, Education, Linguistics) | 2
05-08-23
Tags:Chinese Education Linguistics pin yin Research word I am reading 徐通锵’s new book on 字本位, an attempt to build Chinese linguistics on the basis of 字, which usually corresponds to a syllable in the language and a character in the script, and a concept (not morpheme) in the mind of the speaker. […]
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(Research, Education, Linguistics) | 0
05-08-23
Tags: New to eye tracking? Here are some books and resources that can be helpful. Ripped off from the EyeMovement List. —–Original Message—– From: Eye-movement mailing list [mailto:EYE-MOVEMENT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of ###### Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:31 PM To: EYE-MOVEMENT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [EM_LIST] courses
Question:
Hi, my name is David #### and I’ve […]
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(Research) | 1
05-08-22
Tags: Starting next week, Dr. Lorraine Tuck will be the Coordinator for Assessment & Accountability at Durham Public School District. She will be responsible for external research programs in Durham Public Schools. This DPS news article from 2003 provides a good summary of her background. Lorraine Tuck named principal of Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet Elementary School
April […]
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(Research, Profiles) | 0
05-08-22
Tags: LOVE abstracts 2004.pdf Directing regressions in sentence reading
Albrecht Inhoff, Ulrich Weger, SUNY Binghamton
Ralph Radach, Technical University at Aachen, Germany
Readers encounter linguistic symbols that occupy specific spatial locations where they can be reinspected after subsequent sentence or passage reading. Backward directed eye movements (regressive saccades) to previously read words and passage segments occur during reading, […]
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(Paperville) | 0
05-08-22
Tags: I met Professor 北村裕(Kitamura, Yutaka) at ECEM12 and ECEM13. The first time he didn’t feel well and this time he was struggling with the jetlag. But despite all troubles, he is a very smart and open person. He speaks excellent English, although he constantly refuses.
I forgot what he presented at ECEM12 but I […]
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05-08-22
Tags: Schroyens, W., Schaeken, W, Fias, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (1999). Is there any need for eye movement recordings during reasoning? In W. Becker, H. Deubel, & T. Mergner (Eds.). Current Oculomotor Research: Physiological and psychological aspects (pp. 279-285). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Walter Schaeken and Géry d’Ydewalle […]
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(Paperville, Psychology) | 0
05-08-22
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Aga Bojko and I overlapped at UIUC. She did her MS at Beckman while I was doing my dissertation. She has since worked for User Centric as an eye tracking specialist. Met with her again at ECEM Bern. She has been using Tobii for a number of years. Will talk to her about Tobii.
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05-08-22
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33rd Annual 2004 LOVE Conference was held Feb 2004.
LOVE — Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment Meeting of Minds in Niagara Falls since 1970
33rd Annual LOVE Conference: LOVE 2004 Celebrating 33 Years of LOVE
Participants included:
Keith Rayner, University of Massachusetts Alexander Pollatsek, University of Massachusetts […]
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