Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

Includes a section in Spanish.

The digital age is changing our children’s lives and childhood dramatically. New technologies transform the way people interact with each other, the way stories are shared and distributed, and the way reality is presented and perceived. Parents experience that toddlers can handle tablets and apps with a level of sophistication the children’s grandparents can only envy. The question of how the ecology of the child affects the acquisition of competencies and skills has been approached from different angles in different disciplines. In linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, the central question addressed concerns the specific role of exposure to language. Two influential types of theory have been proposed. On one view the capacity to learn language is hard-wired in the human brain: linguistic input is merely a trigger for language to develop. On an alternative view, language acquisition depends on the linguistic environment of the child, and specifically on language input provided through child-adult communication and interaction. The latter view further specifies that factors in situated interaction are crucial for language learning to take place. In the fields of information technology, artificial intelligence and robotics a current theme is to create robots that develop, as children do, and to establish how embodiment and interaction support language learning in these machines. In the field of human-machine interaction, research is investigating whether using a physical robot, rather than a virtual agent or a computer-based video, has a positive effect on language development. The Research Topic will address the following issues: - What are the methodological challenges faced by research on language acquisition in the digital age? - How should traditional theories and models of language acquisition be revised to account for the multimodal and multichannel nature of language learning in the digital age? - How should existing and future technologies be developed and transformed so as to be most beneficial for child language learning and cognition? - Can new technologies be tailored to support child growth, and most importantly, can they be designed in order to enhance specifically vulnerable children’s language learning environment and opportunities? - What kind of learning mechanisms are involved? - How can artificial intelligence and robotics technologies, as robot tutors, support language development? These questions and issues can only be addressed by means of an interdisciplinary approach that aims at developing new methods of data collection and analysis in cross-sectional and longitudinal perspectives. We welcome contributions addressing these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective both theoretically and empirically.

Shunned at school because he sprouts flowers every full moon, Rink Bowagon makes a special pair of shoes for a classmate who is able to appreciate his unique abilities.

El año 1955, nos conocimos en los pasillos del Instituto Bíblico Magdiel, el Dr. Pablo Sánchez y un servidor. En ese tiempo, cuando ingresé al Magdiel yo venía de Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, él venía de Cd. Mante. Me informó que nació en el Municipio del Mante, el 7 de Junio de 1935. Fuimos compañeros de cuarto allí en el Instituto, y desde entonces somos buenos amigos y compañeros en estas lides. Se graduó el 1956, se casó con Elizabeth Posada. El supo ganar los espacios en el tiempo. Es educador, por lo que se propuso cursar los niveles educativos que exige su profesión; desde terminar la Primaria, la Secundaria, la Preparatoria, se recibió de Licenciado en Pedagogía y de Sociología y con la Especialidad en Ciencias Sociales, en la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, también se graduó como profesor de Educación Media y con la Especialidad en Orientación Vocacional, en la Normal Superior de Tamaulipas. Incursionó en el Sistema Educativo Mexicano, la Secretaría de Educación Pública lo distinguió enviándolo a un curso de excelencia, y participó en comisiones con distintos fines a nivel nacional. Más tarde, sacó su Maestría en Divinidades de la Universidad de Hawaii en el Campus de Oklahoma City, y fue Doctorado en Teología por La Escuela de Biblia, Teología, Seminario y Universidad, de Riverside, California Estados Unidos, Se le considera cofundador de la obra de Las Asambleas de Dios en el Estado de Tabasco, fundó la Iglesia en Teapa, Tabasco, pastoreó en Linares, Nuevo León, en Piedras Negras, Coahuila. En Acapulco, Guerrero, en Reynosa Tamaulipas, ocho años fue director de un Instituto Bíblico en Reynosa, fundó el Instituto Bíblico Emaús y por 26 años fue su director. Es Presidente de "EAGLES INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY". Sus hijos son: Josué, Benjamín, Roberto y Lily, todos con diferentes grados educativos y diferentes posiciones en calidad de siervos del Señor, dedicados al ministerio. Con enorme emoción me complace escribir esta síntesis biográfica de la vida de mi amigo, el Dr. Pablo Sánchez. Dr. Alfonzo De Los Reyes Valdez

Set in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and northern Mexico, this timeless material offers lessons about life and how to triumph over its hardships: from making a bargain with the devil to gaining peace through true love; from dealing with inexplicable, even supernatural events to accepting special gifts that transform pain into joy; and from overcoming jealousy, anger, or stinginess to accepting others just as they are."--BOOK JACKET.