September 15, 2011
Clifford J. Levy – September 15, 2011 The phone rang, and my stomach clenched when I heard her voice. “Daddy? I want to go home,” said […]
August 7, 2011
Casey Schwartz – August 7, 2011 On a sweltering August morning, in a classroom overlooking New York’s Hudson River, a group of 3-year-olds are rolling sticky […]
July 15, 2011
Karene Booker – July 15, 2011 When young children learn a second language, it strengthens their ability to pay attention to the right stuff, reports a […]
July 15, 2011
Over half the world’s population speaks more than one language. But it’s not clear how these languages interact in the brain. A new study, which will […]
July 5, 2011
Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – July 5, 2011 An international research group, including of the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the […]
June 27, 2011
The bibliography on this page, compiled by Carol Ann Pesola and Helena Curtain, includes research that shows the benefits of early language learning. The bibliography is divided into two […]
June 27, 2011
University of California, Los Angeles – June 27, 2011 Rhythms in the brain that are associated with learning become stronger as the body moves faster, UCLA […]
June 20, 2011
Society for Research in Child Development – June 20, 2011 We know that poor social and physical environments can harm young children’s cognitive and behavioral development, […]
June 16, 2011
People who are competent in more than one language outscore those who are speakers of only one language on tests of verbal and nonverbal intelligence; For […]
June 11, 2011
Killian Fox – June 11, 2011 Looking at Alzheimer’s patients, Canadian neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok finds that people who speak two languages cope significantly better with the […]
May 27, 2011
Lauren Migliore – May 27, 2011 I’m trying to be patient, but J’en ai marre!! — I’m fed up!! At least at times, that’s how I feel. There’s […]
May 1, 2011
University of Kansas – May 21, 2011 How do people who speak more than one language keep from mixing them up? How do they find the […]
March 19, 2011
A team of researchers from the University of Montreal and McGill University have discovered a type of “cellular bilingualism” – a phenomenon that allows a single […]
March 17, 2011
Karen Ann Cullotta – March 17th, 2011 For parents determined to convince their middle school student to study a particular foreign language, linguistics expert Nancy Rhodes […]
February 20, 2011
David L. Wheeler – February 20, 2011 Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate, a series of […]
July 20, 2010
University of Chicago – July 20, 2010 A foreign accent undermines a person’s credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don’t consciously realize, new […]
February 17, 2010
University of Haifa – February 17, 2010 Perception of second language speech is easier when it is spoken in the accent of the listener and not […]
December 13, 2009
Rosario Then – December 13, 2009 Which factors influence language development? Language development is never a static process, it is rather a process that is forever […]
June 25, 2009
Rodrigue Landry, Réal Allard and Kenneth Deveau – June 25, 2009 ABSTRACT: This article focuses on additive bilingualism for minority group children, more specifically the development […]
November 28, 2006
Carlos Carrion Torres – Vitoria ES -November 28, 2006 Advantages of English Nowadays at the beginning of 21st century, in media and computer era, being a […]
May 3, 2006
Christina Bosemark – May 3, 2006 When I was growing up, the only way to raise a truly international child was via an exorbitantly priced Swiss […]
May 3, 2006
Christina Bosemark – May 3, 2006 “After we talked, I’ve spoken nothing but French to my one year old for close to seven weeks now. All […]
March 9, 2004
James Crawford – March 9, 2004 Researchers have made considerable advances in the fields of psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingual pedagogy, and multicultural education. Today, we […]
December 16, 2001
Joy Kreeft Peyton, Vickie W. Lewelling, & Paula Winke – December 2001 The increasing number of students who enter U.S. schools from homes where languages other […]
October 1, 2000
Reid Wilson – October 1, 2000 Quote that captures the essense of the book: “What theory implies, quite simply, is that language acquisition, first or second, […]
September 25, 2000
Greg Thomson – September 25, 2000 You are hoping to learn a language. What sort of expectations do you have? I still have some scrawlings which […]
June 6, 1996
Marsha Rosenberg – June 6, 1996 The idea of raising bilingual children is both appealing and possible for more and more families these days, and growing […]
