Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 43, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: New educational researchers in the UK (August 2017), pp. 462-481 (20 pages) The current longitudinal study examines the similarities and ...
Learning a second language is easier for some adults than others, and innate differences in how the various parts of the brain "talk" to one another may help explain why. Learning a second language is ...
Holistic theories of meaning have, at least since Dummett's Frege: The Philosophy of language, been assumed to be problematic from the perspective of the incremental nature of natural language ...
Learning a new language isn’t easy. It took me four years of high school French to be semi-comfortable ordering a croissant in a Parisian cafe. But, keeping a notebook while you’re learning a foreign ...
A popular stereotype of Americans traveling abroad is the tourist who is at a loss when it comes to coping with any language other than English. Fair or not, the fact is that while the U.S. does not ...
Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...
Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language for the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is considered optional—and not ...