Schooling Frontier
Exploring language learning and early childhood education through research
Does Talking More to Your Child Really Accelerate Language Development? — What a 4-Year Longitudinal Study Found
A study tracking 296 Australian families from 6 months to age 4 reveals the causal relationship between parent-child conversation and language development.
The Book You Choose Changes How Your Child Speaks — What a 6-Week Experiment Revealed
A Max Planck Institute study shows that reading complex stories — where characters hold false beliefs — dramatically increases preschoolers’ use of subordinate clauses, mental verbs, and longer sentences.