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 ...

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 ...

UT assistant professor Maria Arredondo conducts an experiment to identify whether or not bilingual children are more efficient learners. Wearing a cap with instruments that map brain activity, a child ...

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When I was in seventh grade, I had a language arts workbook that asked us to fill in the blanks with one of four words. Approaches varied, but the idea was to give students a sense of the range of our ...

Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via Getty Images Plus Five years after the pandemic forced children into ...

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 ...

Contrary to conventional thinking, it's never too late to learn a new language. Use these tips to get started. For more than two years, Dulcie Shoener of Milwaukee has done daily German lessons on her ...

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