Dr S. Unsworth (Sharon)

Sharon Unsworth does research on how to best raise children bilingually. Which factors play a role in this process and which best predict success? In recent years her research has concentrated on the role of age and environmental factors such as the quality of the input, and she is currently leading a project on how the two languages of a bilingual children influence each other. Unsworth is also involved in various projects on early foreign language acquisition and bilingual primary education. Unsworth is also active on the valorisation front. She regularly gives workshops for parents about raising bilingual children -- something which as mother of two English/Dutch bilingual children she also has experience of at home -- and she is initiator of the first child language festival in the Netherlands, Kletskoppen, which took place for the first time in 2017.

• Cognitive and developmental aspects of multilingualism