While a young language learner can more easily acquire a native accent, adults retain the ability to learn new languages well ...
A Calvin College professor of Spanish has earned a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study language acquisition in Chile and Mexico City. “The ability to acquire language is innate ...
It was almost surreal to use an AI as my French-speaking partner ...
This chapter provides a broad overview of the findings from research on bilingualism and second-language learning, including types of bilingualism, linguistic aspects of second-language acquisition, ...
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 ...
Recent research in orthography and second language (L2) speech processing has increasingly demonstrated that the written form of a language plays a pivotal role in shaping the way learners acquire and ...