Using a headcam, scientists recorded the world from a baby’s point of view. Now they have trained AI with those recordings to probe how children learn language.

Balanced literacy prompts children to learn words encountered in authentic literature during guided, teacher-led read-alouds – versus learning how to decode words in word lists.

Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) ...

Balanced literacy prompts children to learn words encountered in authentic literature during guided, teacher-led read-alouds – versus learning how to decode words in word lists.

Children do not learn words in isolation, but according to meaning domains. Experiments show how this process works.

Understanding how speech therapy helps kids goes beyond improving the way they speak. Therapy encourages self-expression, fosters positive self-image, and nurtures the ability to understand and ...

If a newborn child grows up hearing people speaking in many different languages, will it later be able to speak all those languages? — Puneesh T., India Children learn languages from the people ...

Kids’ physical experiences with their environment help them learn new words. Words that refer to objects that children can interact with easily are also words they learn at an earlier age. A ...

New research pinpoints how young children quickly learn language, opening new paths to leverage for machine learning.

Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but from the ...

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what ...