I was fortunate enough to have just spent the last four weeks working with Professor Elaine Reese at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, all thanks to a LuCiD travel grant. One of the…
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I visited my two-year-old niece over the Easter weekend. Before I’d had a chance to take my coat off, she came running over to me with her Oh No, George book under her arm, and asked me to read it…
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Dr Jamie Lingwood reports back from his visit to a workshop in Tianjin which brought together researchers from the UK and China to discuss reading development and reading difficulties...
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Over the summer of 2015, I undertook a LuCiD internship working on part of Dr Thea Cameron-Faulkner and Dr Claire Noble’s project ‘A good book? The grammatical properties of shared reading’. This…
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Come along for a weekend full of family-friendly fun at the Manchester Museum and discover more about the science behind the way we learn to communicate with language. Join LuCiD researchers
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Help our researchers to understand more about how young children use media (books, TV, apps etc.) to learn language by completing a short online survey.