Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

In contrast, readers' learning was influenced by the written form, which puts a space between articles and nouns. Learn like a baby Listening without reading letters may help us to stop focusing on ...

Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

Overhearable speech (speech that may occur when caregivers are talking to each other in a child's presence) constitutes more ...

Babies learn languages across cultures, under wildly different circumstances. Some children are spoken to in high-pitched, sing-song voices tailored just for them, while others grow up hearing adults ...

The sing-song voice many adults instinctively use with infants, sometimes called "baby talk" but more accurately known as "parentese" or infant-directed speech, actually helps children learn language.

Many parents have heard the warning: Don’t use baby talk with babies and toddlers. Instead, caregivers are often encouraged to speak properly and use adultlike language, out of concern that simplified ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University (THE CONVERSATION ...