JAPAN is probably the only country in the world where a blind child makes faster progress in school than a normal child. The children attending the Japanese government schools for the blind take two ...

Prof. W. J. T. Mitchell may be the only living iconologist on the planet. He draws on ideas from ancient and modern mythology that treat pictures as living things. As a historian of cultural images, ...

For their books, Assoc. Prof. Noémie Ndiaye and Asst. Prof. Maria Anna Mariani respectively will receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and for Italian Studies ...

Only a fraction of the 7,000 to 8,000 languages spoken around the world benefit from modern language technologies like voice-to-text transcription, automatic captioning, instantaneous translation and ...

There’s never been a better time to learn Korean. It’s one of the fastest-growing languages in the world, outpacing traditionally popular rivals like Chinese in multiple markets – reflecting the ...

Modern language professors at SUNY Brockport are mobilizing against a possible downgrading of their department, a local manifestation of a national predicament for shrinking language departments at ...

The Undergraduate Catalog states that all students will have proficiency in a foreign language at the 202/203 level. A foreign language is understood to mean a natural language other than English. You ...

Monika Schmid receives funding from DFG, NWO, AHRC and ESRC. There is another reason why studying a language at school will serve you well. As my new research shows, the knowledge you acquire in a ...

Enrollment by college students in foreign language courses dropped a record 16.6% between fall 2016 and fall 2021, according to the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) most recent census, released ...

Every time a physician or a nurse practitioner sees a patient, they create a document. It may be a clinic note or an encounter note. Similarly, every time a diagnostic physician such as a radiologist ...