Parents can help toddlers' language skills by showing them a variety of examples of different actions, according to new research. Previous research has shown that verbs pose particular difficulties to ...

Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The ...

Using modified clips from the program Sesame Beginnings, researchers studied children's ability -- with and without adult support -- to learn a new verb and apply that word to a new scene. The ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Do you have a question you want us to answer? You can send us your questions to learning.english@bbc.co.uk Alejandra has sent us a question. She wants ...

An influential account claims that whereas children have a “coalition of cues” available during word learning, they initially weight perceptual cues more, only later attending to linguistic and social ...

An increase means that there is more of something There are some words that we often use with 'increase'. These are called collocations. Learn some of the verbs that we often use with the noun ...