linguistics

Explores the histories of twenty languages and dialects, looking at their commonalities and differences.

Meet a young girl and her friend Hap as they attempt to follow a map to the lake, while learning words in the -ap word family.

Leila Christenbury shares her philosophy of teaching English language arts at the secondary and middle school level, discussing the reality of life in the classroom; exploring theoretical and practical issues related to teaching literature, language, and writing; and including ideas and anecdotes.

Text and illustrations, including cartoons, introduce readers to the thought of twentieth-century linguist and social reformer Noam Chomsky.

Text and cartoon illustrations provide an introduction to linguistics, covering the history of the discipline, significant individuals and developments, schools of thought, and other related topics.

A collection of essays that explores language and how it shapes reality, covering the art of translation, the lyricism of sign language, the numeric language of the author's autistic childhood, and more.

This episode profiles "Genie," a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total isolation from infancy. When social workers discovered her as a teenager, she had not learned to walk or talk. This program includes never-before-seen footage of her rehabilitation and probes how and when we learn the skills that make us "human.".

Explains the reading process and provides guidance for language arts teachers, showing how to assess and help students achieve.

Cognitive scientist Mark Seidenberg reveals the science of reading, and how chronic underachievement in America can be linked to neurobiology and linguistics.

Examines the relationships between languages, words and thought and the development of human communication and culture.