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 ...

Young children learn language far faster than teenagers or adults because of how parents tailor how they talk to them, using more complex sentences as fluency improves. This is the finding of experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born Deaf, Chennai-based Shraddha Agarwal built SignSetu — a bilingual Indian Sign Language (ISL) platform that helps Deaf ...

A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This ...

Even the smartest machines can’t match young minds at language learning. Researchers share new findings on how children stay ahead of AI - and why it matters. If a human learned language at the same ...

Experts from the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster have secured one of the largest grants ever awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to carry out research which ...