The older we get, the more difficult it becomes to learn another language. Why? Some say our brains are only built for it when we are young. Some say it is the way we are taught that does not cater ...

Use your knowledge of how people acquire a second language, your skills in general and applied linguistics, and instructional strategies in meeting the second-language needs of students with limited ...

Brevity, as the Bard said, may well be the soul of wit. But, according to research by a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, brevity also is the nature of speech to infants, and ...

Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the ...

This paper is intended as a contribution to an evergrowing body of literature on the role played by principles and parameters of Universal Grammar in second-language acquisition theory. A recent paper ...

As we have mentioned, language acquisition is an interesting topic; however, it is only recently that real linguistic research has been generated. Early studies were diaries of spontaneous speech ...