Translating a basic finding into a new therapy requires us to speak many languages—scientific, clinical, legal and financial. Yet most of us are hopelessly 'monolingual', a limitation that ...

Volunteer native English speakers are being recruited for studies in the Neuroplasticity and Development Lab. These experiments investigate how life experiences shape language processing. Study ...

Growing up in a multilingual home has many advantages, but many parents worry that exposure to multiple languages might delay language acquisition. New research could now lay some of these ...

Learning two languages from the start helps children master the rules of each language faster, new research indicates. Some parents may worry whether teaching their babies two languages concurrently ...

There’s an accruing pile of evidence that teaching in English and a child’s home language in the preschool and early elementary years is best for young dual-language learners, both for academic ...

Post written by François Grosjean. Although the advantages of being bilingual are numerous (see here), parents and educators are often worried that bilingual children will not know as many words as ...

n the age of multilingualism, can we say that one English language speaker is better than the other? Is there any one true definition of a good language speaker? More importantly, how should we teach ...