Monday, September 7, 2009

My Oldest Grandson James

I never quite understood what kind of Doctor James was going to be or what research he was doing. He is in Grad school at Northwestern, just finishing his first year.His research study that he came up with is to see if bilingual Spanish-English speakers are better than monolingual English speakers at learning words in a third, made up language of his own design.He's had a lot of people respond so he's now busy looking at their data to see how well they learned. I find it fascinating, certainaly a lot deeper than anything I ever studied. Hopefully he will send me the results soon. Hope I didn't bore you all,( it has nothing to do with quilting ) but I think its quite interesting knowing James as I do. He is a very shy, quiet young man, very much the silent type and now he speaks in front of many, many Doctors, Professors etc. Amazing!

4 comments:

  1. I was mistaken all this time. I thought he was going to be a medical doctor of some sort...but it seems as if this isn't medical-type research. It sounds like an interesting project, though. From my experience teaching ESL to adults, I have always felt people who are bi-lingual (or multi-lingual) do pick up other languages more easily than those of us raised with just one language.

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  2. I think that is very interesting. I would like to hear his conclusions.

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  3. I would be so proud of him and I think you are....love hearing about your life...

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  4. Now Kaye, you have every right to be proud of this young man, and to brag!! And who said every post has to be about quilting? Mine certainly aren't. My blog is also my personal journal, which I hope my kids will some day appreciate.

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