Roundtable: Language and Access to Justice

Sunday, June 30, 2019 09:30to12:30

Leacock Building McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke St W, Room 232, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, CA/continuingstudiesCategory: School of Continuing Studies

Faces and Names: Do we wish they were the same?

Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:00to13:00

When learning to speak a foreign language, students typically are given a lesson in how to introduce themselves. This lesson often takes the form of a simple conversational dialogue such as, “Hello...

WASHINGTON POST | The weight of the words

Published: 8 February 2018

Jacob Levy offers a deeply thoughtful meditation on Trump’s use of language — on the power it has exerted over Republican voters and the GOP Congress, and on the folly of imagining that his words...

Being a musician can help you decipher language in loud environments 

Published: 11 December 2017

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that musical training helps people hear speech syllables in loud environments, and has shown how this happens....

Placement Test: Part-Time English Language

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 18:30to20:30

Placement Tests Language and Intercultural Communication/continuingstudiesCategory: School of Continuing Studies Information

Learning a new language alters brain development

Published: 29 August 2013

Scientists at The Neuro find important time factor in second-language acquisition...

First language wires brain for later language-learning

Published: 1 December 2015

Research also demonstrates brain's plasticity and ability to adapt to new language environments

The role of neural rhythmic entrainment in early language learning: Victoria Leong, PhD

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 15:00to16:00

Please join us for a CRBLM Invited Lecture by Victoria Leong, PhD (Cambridge University), who will present "The role of rhythmic entrainment in early language learning" on Wednesday, November 5th...

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