Children of immigrants and non-native English speakers often become their family’s translators growing up, a task they are ...

Researchers at MIT have created a database of annotated sentences written by non-native English speakers, the university announced in a press release Friday, in an effort to improve the ways in which ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...

Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Aporine Shabani escaped violence in Congo to ...

“The Caribbean is too tiny to scale” is a refrain we hear often when it comes to tapping into the expertise of the region, despite the overwhelmingly positive experience of those who have invested ...

While Florida has plenty of native slang, it turns out that an entirely new way of speaking has come about in the Sunshine ...

Language connects humans and its shapes how we connect, trade, and share ideas across borders. In 2025, over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet just a handful dominate global communication.

There are many questions being asked about the European Union’s future after the departure of the United Kingdom last week. One of the most curious concerns language. For two decades, English has been ...