Knowing another language opens doors for kids and adults alike. But most educators agree that childhood is the ideal time for language learning. While their brains don’t actually work like sponges and ...

Learning a second language during childhood can prove to be a fun and fruitful experience for children. Though it has been ...

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 ...

My 3-year-old has been playing in her room by herself for an hour. I’m beginning to worry she is up to no good: Is she “decorating” her walls with a Sharpie or perhaps systematically pulling out tufts ...

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 ...

After growing up across countries, I knew I wanted my kids to be multilingual — fluent in Dutch, German, and English from ...

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 ...

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Antonella Sorace is a Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She received grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the EU, the ...

July 2 (UPI) --Children are remarkably efficient language learners -- they absorb new words, sentence structures and syntax much faster than teenagers and adults. But why? While most studies probing ...

A new research study of children as they enter and leave preschool shows that they gain language skills and abilities not only from adults in their life who have mastered spoken language, but from ...