Parents can help toddlers' language skills by showing them a variety of examples of different actions, according to new research. Previous research has shown that verbs pose particular difficulties to ...

Three experiments provided evidence that 3.5- to 4-year-old English-speaking children (N = 72) attend to the appearances of novel objects, not only when they hear a novel noun, but also when they hear ...

(Medical Xpress)—Language acquisition has traditionally been considered a social, interactive process, however new research from Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent ...

English in a Minute: Beth teaches you some verbs that can be used with 'business' Prefixes de, dis, dys English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'information' Suffixes –free and -less English in a ...

One of the pivotal moments in my career as an educator came during an email exchange with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, a long-time Teacher Leaders Network colleague and friend. We were wrestling with the ...

An influential account claims that whereas children have a “coalition of cues” available during word learning, they initially weight perceptual cues more, only later attending to linguistic and social ...

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In attempting to learn another language it’s frequently the forms of verbs which present the major difficulties. As has been observed previously in this column, this is much less of a problem with te ...