How can you best measure how often children hear each language at home? This is what we investigated in our research on Language Use in Multilingual Families. In studies on multilingual children, parent questionnaires are almost always used to find out how often children hear certain languages. However, little is known about how reliable these […]
What does a researcher at the university actually do? Researchers naturally engage in various activities, but one thing that all researchers are involved in is writing articles. These articles usually cover new research findings and are published in scientific journals. If you aspire to work in academia for life, publishing articles is an essential part
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How do you support a child who doesn’t speak much Dutch yet? Is it concerning if children mix multiple languages? When should you be worried? How do you ensure children have an open attitude towards other languages? These are a few of the questions we discussed on Saturday morning, March 2nd, during an interactive workshop
MultiCUE gives workshop on multilingualism to home daycares Read More »
Do multilingual children recognize irony better than monolingual children?
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In August of this year, Elise presented the results of MultiCUE’s first study at a conference at the University of Birmingham in England. In this study, we investigated the following question: do multilingual children have better pragmatic skills than monolingual children?
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During the autumn holidays, we collected our research at the Science Museum NEMO in Amsterdam! 30 children visiting NEMO also participated in our research, called “Do you get what I mean?”
MultiCUE in NEMO during autumn break Read More »