Thinking Language Awareness at a Science Centre

Situated in the highly multilingual context of Vancouver, this article discusses aspects of a collaborative research project, intertwining the development of language awareness and scientific, technological, and multilingual literacies in a science centre environment. Participants were multilingual, kindergarten-aged children who attended an interactive, activity-based science educational program in a local science centre and participated in writing activities in a nearby community centre. The article will discuss the science centre as a transformative learning environment to harness cultural and linguistic diversity, a vital resource to simultaneously develop language awareness, and science knowledge. Multimodal data sources include visual documentation of the linguistic landscape at the science centre, as well as photographs, video recordings and field notes of children working individually or in small groups, and a selection of the products children created.

Caregiver linguistic alignment to autistic and typically developing children

Background: Language development is a highly interactive activity. However, most research on linguistic environment has focused on quantity and complexity of linguistic input to children, with current models showing that complexity facilitates language in both TD children and autistic children.Aims: We investigate the presence and sensitivity of caregivers’ active reuse of their children’s language (linguistic alignment), and how well it predicts language development beyond other measures of linguistic input, taking also into account the child’s cognitive, social and linguistic abilities.Methods: We measure lexical, syntactic and semantic types of caregiver alignment in a longitudinal corpus involving 32 adult-autistic child and 35 adult-TD child dyads, with children between 2 and 5 years of age. We assess the extent to which caregivers repeat their children’s word, syntax and semantics, and whether this predicts language development beyond more standard predictors. Results: Caregivers tend to re-use their child’s language in a way that is related to the child’s individual, primarily linguistic differences. Caregivers’ alignment provides unique information improving our ability to predict future language development in both typical and autistic children. Conclusions: We provide evidence that language acquisition also relies on interactive conversational processes, previously understudied. We share open-source scripts to systematically extend our approach to new contexts and languages.

311 Effects of Interactive Activity at the Feedbunk on Performance, Feed Efficiency and Feeding Patterns in Feedlot Cattle

The objective of this study was to determine if the magnitude of interactive feeding activity at the feedbunk affects feed efficiency and feeding behavior patterns in beef cattle. This study used data from 498 crossbred steers (3 trials) fed high-concentrate diets in pens with electronic feed bunks (GrowSafe Systems). Timestamp data for bunk visit (BV) events were used to develop an algorithm to quantify those BV events deemed to be replacement events; Defined as those that occur when an animal displaces and replaces another animal from the feedbunk within a specified period of time (replacement criterion). For this study, a replacement criterion of ≤ 18 s was used. A replacement activity index (RAI) was computed for each steer as the number of replacement events divided by total BV events. Within pen, steers were classified into 1 of 3 phenotypes based on ± 0.5 SD from mean RAI. Steers with high RAI (> 0.5 SD from mean RAI) were hypothesized to be more interactive at the feedbunk, whereas steers with low RAI were less interactive at the feedbunk. A mixed model with RAI class as fixed effect, and trial and pen within trial as random effects was used for data analysis. The low RAI steers had 6% fewer BV events that were 12% longer (P < 0.001) in duration than high RAI steers. Additionally, eating rate (g/min) was 14% slower (P < 0.001) and time to approach the feedbunk following feed delivery 6 min longer (P < 0.001) in low vs high RAI steers. The low-RAI steers had substantially less (P < 0.01) feeding activity during peak feeding time than high RAI. Further research is warranted to evaluate interactive feeding activity at the feedbunk as a potential indicator of performance and feed efficiency in feedlot cattle.

The future teacher of physical culture as a subject of forming the health-saving educational environment

The article presents the results of research the problem of educational environment in the system of professional education according to the basic criteria of successful learning and health. The set of algorithms of activity have been formed, which focus on special training of future specialists in physical culture to create a healthy educational environment. They concerns modern conditions of transition to the competence system of education, format of blended learning, taking into account features of distance forms of educational activity. In the context of the competence model of education (full-time or distance), the educational environment is interpreted as an interconnected interactive activity of the teacher and students, a kind of counter movement to ensure its healthy potential. There were determined he bases of semantic and technological reorientation of the system of professional training of the future teacher of physical culture according to the standards of competence education, system of competences which must be owned by a specialist.

USE OF A SYSTEM OF INTERACTIVE DIGITAL RESOURCES AND PROJECT WORK FOR UPGRADING KNOWLEDGE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL WORLD IN PRESCHOOL PREPARATION

The article supports interactive learning in education. Increasingly, traditional forms are being replaced by interactive ones. For the full mastering of the learning material, it is important for the child / student to actively participate in the class. It is necessary for the education to be carried out through activities, practice, solving problems, th rough which the child / student will learn the new knowledge easily. The article presents an example of performing this type of interactive activity in a learning environment. The article presents a pedagogical study, which experiments the possibility of upgrading the knowledge of children in kindergarten in environment.

The Infantile Leukoencephalopathy-Associated Mutation of C11ORF73/HIKESHI Proteins Generates De Novo Interactive Activity with Filamin A, Inhibiting Oligodendroglial Cell Morphological Differentiation

Background: Genetic hypomyelinating diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders involving the white matter. One infantile hypomyelinating leukoencephalopathy is associated with the homozygous variant (Cys4-to-Ser (C4S)) of the c11orf73 gene. Methods: We observed that in mouse oligodendroglial FBD-102b cells, the C4S mutant proteins but not the wild type ones of C11orf73 are microscopically localized in the lysosome. And, they downregulate lysosome-related signaling in an immunoblotting technique. Results: The C4S mutant proteins specifically interact with Filamin A, which is known to anchor transmembrane proteins to the actin cytoskeleton; the C4S mutant proteins and Filamin A are also observed in the lysosome fraction. While parental FBD-102b cells and cells harboring the wild type constructs exhibit morphological differentiation, cells harboring C4S mutant constructs do not. It may be that morphological differentiation is inhibited because expression of these C4S mutant proteins leads to defects in the actin cytoskeletal network involving Filamin A. Conclusions: The findings that leukoencephalopathy-associated C11ORF73 mutant proteins specifically interact with Filamin A, are localized in the lysosome, and inhibit morphological differentiation shed light on the molecular and cellular pathological mechanisms that underlie infantile hypomyelinating leukoencephalopathy.

Development of an interactive activity for children from the point of view of team building

Sofia Davydova, Senior Researcher at the Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum, tells about the peculiarities of developing interactive programs for younger students in a literary museum and the successful experience of involving colleagues in the process.

SELEÇÃO QUE VESTE A CAMISA

TEAM THAT GIVES ITS BEST. Football is the most practiced sport in the world, and admittedly one of the biggest cultural manifestations in Brazil. Its size and importance impact many fields of science. In this work, a playful and interactive activity is proposed, which allows the so beloved national sport and Chemistry to be united in a fun and reflective way, through the selection of the dream team. Each team can be formed by the desired tactical lineup, placing the player of your choice in the eleven available positions, describing its characteristic that makes it there. Even though it is derived from a competitive sport, there is no singular winner in this strategy, since everyone involved wins, due to the reflections and considerations developed, to the stimulus of creativity and to the fun involved in recreational activities like this.

A Conversation Analysis of Repair Trouble Sources, Inadequacy and Positions in the Iraqi University Viva Discussions in English

Oral interaction is sometimes not articulated by its participants as perfect as they project. The unsuccessful instances of talk in exchange may cause serious communicative breakdowns between the involved partners of the interactive activity. Conversation analysis (CA) is privileged to have a powerful mechanism, which is called repair organization that is exploited in interaction to prevent and fix any variety of troubles in talk. This strategic organization of repair is then operated to capacitate talkers of unavoidable interactive breakdowns of talk. Accordingly, this study aims at observing, describing, analyzing and identifying the trouble sources of repair strategies which exist in the Iraqi university viva discussions in English, and investigating their repair positions and inadequacies. Likewise, it is hypothesized that misunderstanding errors is the most frequent trouble source of repairs in the Iraqi university viva discussions in English, non-repair is the most frequent repair inadequacy, and that the fourth position of repair is the most frequent position type. The procedure adopted to fulfil the aims and to verify the hypotheses include collecting data which consists of four hours and ten minutes of audiotaped oral interactions in the MA and Ph.D. viva discussions, developing a model for repair strategies from various theories in CA, observing and collecting the data by recording audiotaped samples of those interactions in viva discussions as sample of the study, putting the datasets into orthography, calculating and describing by the use of the model, and analyzing the dataset of the study qualitatively and quantitatively. The study concludes that the eclectic model suggested and applied in the study gives a multi- faceted description of the different repair study. It is found that repair sources of trouble include grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, discourse, factual information, channel, processing, misunderstanding errors, repair of no errors. It also exposes that there are zero occurrence of miss-repair, self-repair and other-repair failures, that pronunciation trouble source of repair results in the highest occurrences and that factual information and repair of no errors are the least frequent trouble sources. The study reveals that non-repair is the most frequent repair inadequacy and same turn repair position is the most frequent one.