Following her first article in eMagazine, Amy Bidgood has written another article, sharing some of the research findings that are beginning to emerge from the Language 0-5 Project on the role of…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog - September 2016
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Dr Katie Twomey has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant to investigate infants’ and young children’s curiosity-based learning. The project will run from October 2016 for two…
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Anyone who’s spent time with a young child knows that they pick up words very quickly! But it’s less well-known that learning a word for something fundamentally changes the way children interact with…
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Good communication skills are essential for learning and making friends, and have wide impacts across a child’s development, which is why The Communication Trust and Pearson have launched the fifth…
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In a new article in Scientific American magazine, Paul Ibbotson (Open University) and LuCiD International Co-Investigator, Mike Tomasello explain why much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in…
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This summer, I worked as a LuCiD intern at the University of Liverpool Language Lab for Amy Bidgood, testing the validity of the Babble Checklist. Babble is seen to be an important stage in language…