Reading an Arabic newspaper, a book, or academic prose fluently, whether digital or in print, remains challenging for many ...

When Alaska students learn to read in English, they aim to meet specific expectations and standards that measure their proficiency. Yet when they learn to read in their Alaska Native language — many ...

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UTQIAĠVIK — Edna Ahgeak Paniattaaq MacLean smiled when her granddaughter Sirroun carried a thick tome with two hands and put it carefully on the table before her. “I had some young people or teenagers ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone ...

Henning Garvin is mindful that a day will come when he can no longer turn to his aging dad, a fluent speaker of the Ho-Chunk language — spelled Hoocąk — and ask how to say this or that in their ...

The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language ...

Language processing encompasses the mental mechanisms by which individuals decode, interpret and produce language, while idiom comprehension focuses on understanding fixed, culturally embedded ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A few years back, ...