SCIENTIFIC mER - - OFFPRINTS Teaching Language to an Ape by Ann James Premack and David Premack SCIENTIFIC s / ilYIERI

Psychology. Is language the key to human intelligence?

An Analysis of Ministry of Education’s Strategic Plans Based on Favorable Components of English Language Teaching Using Shannon’s Entropy

The present research aims to analyze the content of Ministry of Education’s strategic plans (the Fundamental Reform Document of Education, the Comprehensive National Scientific Plan and the National Curriculum Document) based on Shannon's entropy regarding the favorable components of teaching English. The contents of the Fundamental Reform Document of Education, the Comprehensive National Scien...

Language evolution: A brief guide for linguists

For the benefit of linguists new to the field of language evolution, the author sets out the issues that need to be distinguished in any research on it. He offers a guided tour of contemporary approaches, including the work of linguists (Bickerton, Carstairs-McCarthy, Chomsky, Hurford, Jackendoff, Pinker, Wray), animal behaviour experts (Dunbar, Hauser, Premack, Savage-Rumbaugh), neurophysiolog...

Increased eating in rats deprived of running.

Daily food intake in rats was temporarily reduced by the introduction of an activity wheel and temporarily increased by the subsequent removal of the wheel. When this outcome is coupled with the positive relation between food deprivation and running-and food deprivation is seen as a loss of eating rather than as a physiological state-there is the suggestion that the total behavior output of the...

JALDA's Interview with Professor James P. Lantolf

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...