When English is not your mother tongue

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Paper or screen, mother tongue or English: which is better? A randomized trial.

CONTEXT To compare family physicians' ability to retain information when reading a review article on paper vs on screen, and in their mother tongue vs in English. METHODS Randomized trial of 114 Scandinavian family physicians who read a review article in October or November 2000 from the Journal of Trauma for 10 minutes either on paper and in English, on screen and in English, on paper in the...

Floral Organogenesis: When Knowing Your ABCs Is Not Enough.

Flower development is one of the particularly wellestablished model systems for investigating the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying organogenesis in plants. Over the past 30 years, this work has led to detailed insights into many of the cellular and developmental processes that occur during the formation of flowers. This progress was made possible especially by the identification and ...

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

When your child does not need antibiotics.

Bacteria Bacteriacancauseear infections, sinus infections, somesore throats, and pneumonia. Antibiotics are strongmedicines that are designed tokillbacteria,buttheyhavenosalutaryeffectonaviral infection.Duringavisit toyourpediatrician,heor shewillwant toknowthehistory of your child’s symptoms, todoaphysical examinationof your child, and to evaluatewhether or not the infection is viral or bacter...