Moomin Language School Blog

Finland as a Worldwide Educational Leader

Finland ranks high in many comparisons. This time Finland is recognized for having the best education for the next...

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Summary of a Pilot Study Made in Cooperation with the City of Helsinki

Moomin Language School is a language learning service for children learning English or Finnish. The service includes an...

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Bilingual Advantage in Speaker Recognition

Bilingual children are better at identifying speakers based on their speech than monolingual children, a new study...

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Napping Helps Children Learn Languages

The University of Arizona (USA) published a research in January 2017 about how napping can help children learn...

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Can Smart Devices Aid Language Learning?

Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat (May 5, 2017) published an article on a new study about smart devices being harmful...

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Nursery Rhymes – Foundation for Language Learning

Research in early childhood education proceeds all the time, giving us more knowledge on what kind of pedagogy our...

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Why Is Mother Tongue So Important for Language Learning?

Professor Jim Cummins from the University of Toronto has written about the importance of mother tongue. Why is it so...

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Children’s Screen Time – How Harmful Is It?

Simon Jary (February 8, 2017) has written an article about screen time and the possible harms that come with it. Jary...

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Neuropsychologists Speak out on Language Education

Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat (17.2.2017) published an article where neuropsychologists speak out on language...

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Game-Based Language Learning in Kindergartens

Bent Meyer from the University of Aalborg in Copenhagen specializes in game-based learning. In 2013 Meyer published a...

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