{"id":33644,"date":"2026-03-16T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=33644"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:46:06","slug":"what-do-i-notice-how-language-learners-view-the-worlds-events","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/events\/what-do-i-notice-how-language-learners-view-the-worlds-events\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do I Notice? How Language Learners View the World\u2019s Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<p>By the end of the second year of life many children are speaking in sentences. What are the underpinnings of this capability? One task children face is to find events in the world and divide them into the units that will be expressed in their native language. Different languages describe the exact same event in diverse ways.  While some progress has been made in understanding how monolingual infants and toddlers discern how their language encodes events, we present the first studies that describe how children learning multiple languages approach the task.  This research is by necessity at the nexus of event perception, language development, and conceptual representations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"speaker\"\n    >\nSpeaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Roberta Michnick Golinkoff<\/strong>, PhD, is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education at the University of Delaware.  Devoted to dissemination and translational science, her research (funded by the Federal government and the LEGO Foundation), focuses on playful learning, media, spatial development, and language acquisition. She is a founder of the <em>Learning Sciences Exchange, Playful Learning Landscapes, Stories with Clever Hedgehog<\/em> for Ukrainian children, and created the <em>QUILS: Quick Interactive Language Screeners<\/em> for young children. Of her 17 books and monographs, her penultimate book, Making Schools Work, reached the NY Times best seller list. It offers an active playful learning approach for improving education.  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