Learn what we found out in our project on shared book reading!
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The Reading Together Project was a randomised control trial (RCT) of shared book
reading with children aged 2 ½ to 3 years. In this project we wanted to find out why reading with children is so good for their language development. We wanted to find out whether what caregivers do and say when reading with children can help support children’s language development. Click on the link below, to discover what we found! 
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So, how DO children learn language?
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For children, the task of learning language really is a tricky business. How is that
they learn that it is fine to say, "The boy raced his opponent", but not, "The boy swam his opponent"? And how do they come to know that it is okay to say, "She walked to the park", but not, "She runned to the park"? These rules are pretty arbitrary and children are never formally taught them. So how do they navigate the maze that is language acquisition? Watch the video on the left to hear Liverpool Language Lab's Prof. Ben Ambridge talk about the two leading (and opposing!) positions on how we learn our native language: the Chomskyan concept of the universal grammar and the constructivist approach. |
