A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This &ldquo ...

Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but from the ...

The kind of human interaction children need to learn language isn't easily replicated. Studies on Baby Einstein videotapes, for example, didn't find any positive effects on a child's vocabulary.

Dr. Hirsh-Pasek argues that there’s more to learning language than just reading. You can see Dr. Hirsh-Pasek present at the UC Davis MIND Institute Auditorium in Sacramento today at 4:30 p.m.

Learning from mistakes We all learn by making mistakes. Looking for errors is also a useful method for linguists to assess how children pick up language.

Language learning is often said to be easy for children and get more difficult over time. It's true that from infancy to age 5, children's brains are primed to learn language.

Learning a new language for adults, however, appears different. Adults must be able to reform an already developed, word-based cognitive framework into a new language structure to master a new ...

Este artículo está disponible en Español. Léelo en español. As California expands transitional kindergarten, English learner advocates are urging school districts to prioritize children learning ...

But the science shows that exposing these children to only this form of communication can make it much harder for them to learn any language. Arguments around parental choice can be used to deprive a ...

Young children with at least one parent who speaks a language other than English at home are less likely to be enrolled in quality early childhood programs, although it is most critical for those ...

Pamela Watts: Hall says less than 10 percent of deaf children in America learn sign language. Jesus didn't start learning ASL until he was 11 years old at Rhode Island School for the deaf.

Children often learn new languages more easily than adults do, but it’s unclear why. Some hypothesize that grasping a language requires absorbing subtle patterns unconsciously and that adults ...