By Words without Borders, May 6, 2021. Interviews. In recent years, a proliferation of books in translation for children and young adults has brought imaginative stories from around the world to new readers. We’re speaking with some of the extraordinary publishers who make these books possible about their experience working in this vital field. For …
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Sweeping changes proposed to primary school curriculum Carl O’Brien – Feb 25, 2020 School children could start learning foreign languages as early as third class under sweeping changes being proposed for the primary curriculum. The shake-up in how teaching and learning takes place in primary schools – the most dramatic in 20 years – could …
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Sam Jarman is a freelance writer based in the UK New research suggests that the sudden ability of young children to understand and form complex sentences is comparable to a physical phase transition. Using principles from statistical mechanics, Eric DeGiuli at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris has explained the abrupt transition by comparing a child’s …
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BY KOUROSH ZIABARI AND CARYL HART – JANUARY 27, 2019 In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to the award-winning children’s author, Caryl Hart . Writing for children is a delicate and sensitive job. Children’s authors should be able to strike a balance between their own past while keeping in touch with the realities of their young audiences …
Since becoming a parent, I’ve gotten even more interested in children, their language acquisition, and their development, so I recently read The Scientist in the Crib by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff and Patricia K. Kuhl. The book is about how children learn about the world and what we adults can learn from studying children, …
I like Michael Rosen’s work for children (I use The Sad Book in my children’s literature course at the university) and I’m always interested in what he has to say about language and lit. So I was excited to read his book, Alphabetical. What a fun, interesting book! You can dip in and out and …
