Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? We started-off in Part One with suggestions from Katie Brown, Jane Fung, Marilee Sprenger and Karen ...

Vocabulary, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, refers to “all the words known and used by a particular person” or “all the words that exist in a particular language or subject”, yet very few ...

Dianna Townsend, Ed.D., professor of literacy studies, plays a crucial role as a co-principal investigator in the Institute of Education Science (IES) grant titled "Words as Tools: Vocabulary ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...

Alice Sullivan works on the 1970 British Cohort Study which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...