Benitez said the researchers create a game simulating different environments: one monolingual and the other bilingual. They ...

Preschoolers read a lot into writing before they know how to read. Youngsters befuddled by printed squiggles on the pages of a storybook nonetheless understand that a written word, unlike a drawing, ...

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 ...

A new study published in Acta Psychologica has found that handwriting provides significant advantages over visual learning when it comes to helping elementary school students acquire new English words ...

In this video, I share a fun, academic-based classroom game I call “Snake.” It’s perfect for keeping young students quiet and ...

Even young children know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words, reports a team from the Princeton Baby Lab, where researchers study how babies ...

Arjun Krishnakumar is a child of immigrants from India who struggled to learn English when they arrived in the United States. He also saw his immigrant classmates struggle with learning a new language ...