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A child's educational success depends on the genes that they haven't inherited from their parents, as well as the genes they have, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

A study published on 21 May in Child Development shows that the early production of beat gestures with the hands (i.e., gestures normally associated with emphasis that do not represent the semantic content of speech) by infants between 14 and 58 months of age in natural interactions with their carers predicts that in their later development, nearing the age of five, these children obtain better results insofar as their oral narrative skills.

UK – Researchers from University College London and Ipsos Mori are part of a team preparing to launch a birth cohort study during the coming year. The ‘Children of the 2020s’ study will include babies born in April, May and June 2021 and will analyse the experiences of young children in England growing up during this decade. The research team from UCL, Ipsos Mori, the University of Oxford, Birkbeck, University of London and the Anna Freud Centre will recruit 8,000 families in early 2022. ...

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How to talk to people about climate change Newswise — As our planet warms, seas rise and catastrophic weather events become more frequent, action on climate change has never been more important. But how do you convince people who still dont believe that humans contribute to the warming climate? New UBC research may offer some insight, examining biases towards climate information and offering tools to overcome these and communicate climate change more effectively. Researchers examined 44 studi...

2020 saw two books by Survey team members appear in print. The Oxford handbook of English grammar, edited by Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova, provides a wide-ranging and authoritative critical survey of current knowledge of the grammar of the English language, and competing research methodologies that may be applied to it. Sean Wallis’s monograph Statistics in Corpus Linguistics...

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