Middle and high school-aged English-language learners who are deemed English-proficient still often struggle to grasp math and English/language arts lessons, a recently released study found. The study ...

Language barriers significantly limit access to health care for U.S. residents with limited English proficiency — a population of over 25 million people nationwide, including more than 500,000 in ...

On a typical weekday morning, many of the subway riders in Pusan, South Korea, can be found with English dictionaries and textbooks in hand as they squeeze in some studying before work. In the ...

Spanish is often framed as both essential and deeply rooted in Miami, a necessity to “get by” living in the 305. In certain ways, it is. In other ways it is not, says FIU sociolinguist Phillip Carter.

The Academic English (AE) program offers part-time and full-time English language study for students who wish to quickly improve their academic, professional, or general English skills. It offers ...

Most English and modern language Ph.D.s are working in academe, and 52 percent hold tenured faculty positions, according to a new, limited study of their career outcomes from the Modern Language ...

Amanda Seidl (standing), a Purdue associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences who studies language acquisition, found that touch can influence how infants learn language. Her research ...

A study of the history and spelling of English suffixes demonstrates that the spelling of English words is more orderly and self-organized than linguistics have previously thought. A Stony Brook ...