Early years practitioners are well aware that a language-rich environment helps children through the early stages of language development, from identifying words in speech to using them in sentences.

A pilot online training programme building nursery practitioner confidence with children’s language needs is being extended to childminders. Sue Owen looks at what it offers Communication is a ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

Language education in Australian schools is in a state of dismay. In 2021, only 8.6 per cent of Year 12 students were enrolled in a language — a historical low. In fact, between 2010 and 2021 the ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

“Learning,” management guru Peter Drucker said, “is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Nikhil Arora takes that view very ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

Learning a new language isn’t easy. It took me four years of high school French to be semi-comfortable ordering a croissant in a Parisian cafe. But, keeping a notebook while you’re learning a foreign ...