This week we published the latest in a series of articles on shared reading in the early years, funded by the ESRC. For me, this work illustrates a crucial point: it is not easy, nor simple nor cheap…
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Prof Caroline Rowland
Caro is Professor of Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Director of the Language Development Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. Her research focuses on how children acquire language, with a particular interest in grammar and in assessing how the child’s environment promotes and shapes language growth. She is an international collaborator for LuCiD (2019-24) and was a Co-Director of LuCiD and the Language 0-5 project lead (2014-19).
Prof Caroline Rowland has written 4 posts
Einstein was famously very slow to talk, worrying his parents for years. However, according to the story their fears were eventually allayed when Einstein was presented with his new baby sister. “Yes,
My friends don’t really understand what I do in my job. I study how children learn language. Half my friends believe that I spend all day attaching electrodes to people’s heads to study their brains.
At first sight, the issue of what label we use to describe language learning difficulties seems a trivial one. But in her blog, Prof Caroline Rowland explains why it's so important to be consistent...