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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.  


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Click on the link below, to discover what we found!​
the_reading_together_project_parent_summary.pdf
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​So, how DO children learn language?
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.



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