Infant language researcher earns top faculty award ON THE GREEN
| Roberta Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Chair in the School of
Education, is not only an educator in the traditional sense of
the word, teaching students in University classrooms, she is
also an educator of the public. She writes and speaks to diverse
audiences of researchers, parents, teachers and healthcare
professionals about how children learn. In recognition of her
work, Golinkoff was selected as the 2011 recipient of the
Francis Alison Award, the University’s highest faculty honor,
which was established in 1978 to recognize scholarship,
professional achievements and dedication. She also is a faculty
member in the departments of Psychology and of Linguistics and
Cognitive Science. Early in her 36-year career at UD, Golinkoff
developed a method to assess language comprehension in babies
who do not yet speak. Because of her research, it is now known
that infants do not sit passively while words wash over them,
but instead they are actively analyz