Dr. Hohenstein will be giving a lecture at St.Helen's this week.
Research interests
My research examines how thought and language are interrelated in child and adult cognition. I have two lines of work that address this topic: 1) structure of language and cognition, and 2) discourse and cognitive development.
Linguistic Structure: This strand of my research has investigated the use of motion descriptions in English and Spanish, focusing on the manner and path aspects of motion. Several of my studies have used motion events to examine different features of motion event judgments and descriptions. These range from studies on infant ability to discriminate manner and path in motion events, to Spanish/English adult bilinguals' use of motion verbs to describe these events. I have also shown that children make different similarity judgments about motion events as a factor of the language they are learning and their age. I am currently conducting pilot work investigating metaphorical motion in Spanish and English.
Discourse: This body of work has been conducted in conjunction with the Centre for Informal Learning and Schools. I am interested in learning what children can glean from their linguistic contexts. These contexts may be implicit teaching devices used by parents and others in their environments. To this end, I have been involved in an examination of children's ideas about science and learning in a museum context, as related to parents' questioning and explanation patterns in parent-child conversations. I am also investigating children’s understanding of the origin of species as related to parent-child conversation about science. In addition, I am interested in examining naturalistic use of analogy in informal as well as formal contexts to promote understanding of new material.
Linguistic Structure: This strand of my research has investigated the use of motion descriptions in English and Spanish, focusing on the manner and path aspects of motion. Several of my studies have used motion events to examine different features of motion event judgments and descriptions. These range from studies on infant ability to discriminate manner and path in motion events, to Spanish/English adult bilinguals' use of motion verbs to describe these events. I have also shown that children make different similarity judgments about motion events as a factor of the language they are learning and their age. I am currently conducting pilot work investigating metaphorical motion in Spanish and English.
Discourse: This body of work has been conducted in conjunction with the Centre for Informal Learning and Schools. I am interested in learning what children can glean from their linguistic contexts. These contexts may be implicit teaching devices used by parents and others in their environments. To this end, I have been involved in an examination of children's ideas about science and learning in a museum context, as related to parents' questioning and explanation patterns in parent-child conversations. I am also investigating children’s understanding of the origin of species as related to parent-child conversation about science. In addition, I am interested in examining naturalistic use of analogy in informal as well as formal contexts to promote understanding of new material.
Teaching
- Foundation Degree: How Children Learn
- BA English Language & Communication: Psycholinguistics
- MA Language, Culture and Diversity: Language, Culture and Mind
- Doctorate in Education: Theories and research in educational settings
- Quantitative Methodology Teaching: PhD cause and effect, PhD basics of quantitative methods, EdD methods of inquiry
- Co-organiser: Current issues in Psychology and Cognitive Processes (PCP)
Programme Director
Memberships
- Society for Research in Child Development
- Cognitive Development Society
- British Psychological Society
- European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction
- International Cognitive Linguistics Association
- International Association for the Study of Child Language
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