The script npr.py (see link below) is a great tool if you want to download authentic listening material from NPR and save it in mp3 format. The script wasn’t working for a while due to a change in how NPR was formatting their pages, but the author has obviously made the appropriate updates. Mike Pickering’s [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Dyslexia may vary by language
The following probably doesn’t have much to offer as material for the ESL teacher, but it is of general interest to language professionals and other educators: Study: Dyslexia differs by language – Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – Dyslexia affects different parts of children’s brains depending on whether they are raised reading English or Chinese. That finding, [...]