how lockdowns helped kids learn the languages their parents speak
- Written by Liquan Liu, Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University

None of us is a stranger to the downsides of the pandemic. For families with kids, kindergartens and schools closed during the lockdown, and parents had to manage schooling and working from home.
Yet there is a silver lining: our research shows that, in families where a parent’s mother tongue is not the language spoken in wider...