How can we explain our roles as researchers to the children we involve in our research? Lab member Laura Benton led a project that developed a new animated video to help researchers do just that! The video is freely available to download, use and share here: ucl.ac.uk/ioe/department…

The Family Learning Festival takes place 15-30 October. Find out how schools have fostered family learning & encouraged parents to learn languages alongside their children. Read our case studies & toolkit to support practitioners with parental engagement. ow.ly/aQKb50L9RmM

Hi Twitter! 👋 At ARU kids we run fun studies that help us to understand the development of babies and young children. We’re based ARU in Cambridge, UK - follow us for #science #babies #earlyyears #fun

We're looking for parents of 16-to-18-month-old toddlers (who hear one or more languages) to take part in a new study on word learning! To find out more, please contact us: [email protected] or 01865 483 676 or sign up to our database on our website: bit.ly/RegisterBabylab

BBC Tiny Happy People caught up with our very own Gert Westermann, Professor of Lancaster Psychology at Lancaster University LuCiD Lancaster University Babylab, to find out more about how babies begin to make speech sounds and how parents can help them build their babble into words. bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-peo…

It's here! The new UK #portal for #languages: thelanguagesgateway.uk. Thrilled to be part of this major initiative for researchers, learners & teachers. Thx The British Academy & partners! Check out the mass of resources & initiatives, & get in touch to suggest further updates! 👇

Did you know that ... #babies #language #foreignlanguage #earlylanguagelearning #coeedl

Read our latest blog post by LuCiD's post-doc Chen Zhao. Chen is working on 'The effects of the individual, home, and community on language development in UK families' project with Dr Thea Cameron-Faulkner and Dr Ludovica Serratrice. lucid.ac.uk/news-events-bl…

Have you ever wondered how babies learn language so quickly? Sign up for our free online talk tonight at 7pm to find out. Dr Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez will be talking about language development, providing tips and answering your questions! Book now: bit.ly/mtrlanguage

Join us on 15 Feb with Adrijana VJ for a fascinating webinar! All the details here... We hope you can join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-pa…

Wordless picture books are a great investment for multilingual families. You can retell the story in your child's different languages, and adapt what you focus on according to their interests and ability. 📚

📖Comment tu dis ? est un grand livre en 12 langues à regarder, lire et écouter sur le site Lexilala.org, et un livre que l’on peut aussi se fabriquer ! Découvrez trois modèles d’imagier à personnaliser avec les langues de votre choix : lexilala.org/comment-tu-dis/

Wonderful and touching article from on the benefits of being brought up bilingual. So valuable for children to have access to home languages theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

One in four people in the UK regret never learning another language, according to our recent survey. We went out and about in Manchester, asking people what languages do they speak and why is it important to learn a new language? Watch! 👇

“ I speak German, Arabic & English but at school I only speak English Because that’s the most important one” Children as young as 7 are aware of the prestigious status given to speaking English. Through our sessions we are interrogating these ideologies.

Get a load of this joyful little comedian! Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) recently created the Early Humor Survey to explore how humor develops in very young children. They found that roughly half of the babies in the tool’s data set showed an appreciation for

New work open access in @OxfordRevEd: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy. What are the language ideologies at the foundation of 'oracy' and how is it increasingly used as part of a social justice narrative? A lengthy thread follows…

Embrace Erasmus+ today!: Our withdrawal from Erasmus+ is having devastating consequences on the UK. That's why I just signed the petition calling on the government to rejoin the programme now. Will you sign the petition too? europeanmovement.co.uk/erasmus-petiti…