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Research scientist Sun He is part of a study by the National Institute of Education which involves 805 children and looks at how differently pre-schoolers acquire language.
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It pays to speak your mother tongue language around your children, new research shows.
A first-of-its-kind study of about 800 children by the National Institute of Education found the amount of exposure a child has to his mother tongue language plays the biggest role in how much he picks up.
