Measuring the tides of talk What talk means for children’s cognitive development by Katrina d’Apice / June 3, 2019
Learning new words through play Research suggests that children learn vocabulary just as effectively through play as through shared book reading Interview by Aisha Schnellmann / May 22, 2019
How children use the power of prediction to learn new words Children are very fast trackers of structures in their language by Meeri Kim / February 25, 2019
Bilingual at school Advantage or disadvantage for learning? by Annie Brookman-Byrne / January 21, 2019
How do deaf or hard of hearing children learn to read? Tailoring literacy instruction depending on a child's communication mode. Blog post and video in American Sign Language by James R. Booth / January 16, 2019
The importance of faces for infants’ learning Just like books are educational tools used to promote language development, faces are also educational tools during the first year of life by Lisa Scott / October 24, 2018
Why do children learn the words they do? Linguists Nivedita Mani and Lena Ackermann looked at the factors that influence variability in early word learning by Meeri Kim / August 27, 2018
Young children sleep to learn Memories and knowledge learned throughout the day are strengthened during sleep, an effect that’s controlled by neurons in the brain by Mallory Locklear / August 13, 2018
What core capacities are uniquely human? Hannes Rakoczy talks about understanding the role that language and culture play in shaping the core capacities of human beings Interview by Sabine Gysi / August 10, 2018
Immigrant children and communication disorders The challenges of acquiring English while maintaining the heritage language by Carla Kekejian / June 18, 2018
“Babies’ brains are equipped to handle more than one language” Language learning begins much earlier than one might think, and numerous factors play an essential role in that process, Janet Werker says Interview by Sabine Gysi / May 30, 2018
Window for learning second language may remain open longer than thought But achieving fluency like a native speaker in a foreign language requires starting to speak the language by 10 years old by Julianne Hill / May 17, 2018
