Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but from the ...

A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This ...

Children’s propensity for language learning has seen the European trend to introduce foreign languages at an ever-younger age. The call from the Barcelona European Council in 2002 for action in ...

Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and rules from the world around them. What makes this achievement even more ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

The songbird is among the classical species studied as a model for understanding the neurobiology of language. It uses song and vocalization to communicate information for its survival. The songbird’s ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. As California expands transitional kindergarten, English learner advocates are urging school districts to prioritize children learning ...

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants ...

The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of the words for ‘smoked trout’ spoken out loud in Danish (top) and ...