Signs written in Spanish are posted in a second-grade bilingual class at Farmers Branch Elementary School, which serves a predominantly Latino, low-income population in Farmers Branch. Despite our ...

Watch the following videos made for high school students why foreign language learning is meaningful to them. The last one is a brief answer for why FL by the President of Thunderbird School of Global ...

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 ...

When twins Ryan and Michael D’Introno entered kindergarten two years ago, they often came home from school singing songs in Spanish, part of a language immersion program their school in Bedford Hills, ...

We can chase easy savings now, and pay for it with misunderstandings later. Or we can simply keep investing in people who ...

The ability to speak multiple languages is usually framed as a practical advantage — one that may help a person achieve professional success. But the benefits of multilingualism go well beyond.

A recent report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences calls for more attention to language teaching in the U.S. The report notes that U.S. students have much less access to foreign language ...

You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most ...

Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you're born? A UdeM-led team of neuropsychology researchers has found that it can. A few weeks of prenatal exposure to a new language is ...

Suppose you decided to start learning a new language—let’s say Italian. In the beginning stages of your language-learning journey, the Italian speech you’ll hear will likely sound like a stream of ...