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 ...

Morten H. Christiansen, The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Cornell University and Fabio Trecca, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science of Language, Aarhus University There are three ...

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 ...

Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but from the ...

Every parent strives to provide their child with the skills necessary to succeed in life, says Sonia Di Marino, a Spanish Language Instructor at Chicago’s Instituto Cervantes, the largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, ...

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The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of the words for ‘smoked trout’ spoken out loud in Danish (top) and ...