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 ...

The UC Davis MIND Institute will host Dr. Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek for its ongoing Distinguished Lecturer Series today. Dr. Hirsh-Pasek is the author of a dozen books on learning and language acquisition.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Eastern Iowa students are being tested on their ability to recognize words, build vocabulary and develop crucial reading skills through a University of Iowa research project. While the ...

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 may learn new words better when they learn them in the context of other words they are just learning -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers investigated ...

Researchers describe a parser that learns through observation to more closely mimic a child's language-acquisition process, which could greatly extend the parser's capabilities. Children learn ...

Adriana Weisleder knows well the benefits of being bilingual: being able to communicate with one’s community, cultivating connection with one’s heritage culture, contributing to the richness and ...