At the U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education, in January, which I attended, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings set out to make ...

When learning a specialist subject it is necessary to use specific language skills, alongside the specialist language content. However, children from educationally deprived backgrounds or those with ...

What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? New findings indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger ...

Language acquisition in humans relies on abilities like abstraction and use of syntactic rules, which are absent in other animals. The neural correlate of acquiring new linguistic competence was ...

A new report has found that children who are native Irish speakers have better linguistic competency in English than in Irish. The research was carried out by an Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta ...