November 16, 2011

Bringing languages to life in the classroom

John Tanner – November 16, 2011 The uptake of modern foreign languages in UK schools is continuing to decline, yet in an increasingly multicultural society and […]
October 10, 2011

Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language

PERRI KLASS, M.D. – Oct 10, 2011 Once, experts feared that young children exposed to more than one language would suffer “language confusion,” which might delay […]
September 26, 2011

Bilingualism

Paweł Zieliński – September 26, 2011 The aim of this article is to present a short compendium of theories concerning bilingualism and bilinguals. Firstly, one needs […]
September 15, 2011

My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling

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

Why It’s Smart to Be Bilingual

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

Bilingualism seems to boost tots’ minds

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

Fluent English Speakers Translate Into Chinese Automatically

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

Interaction is Critical for the Evolution of the Language

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

Research in Support of Elementary School Foreign Language Learning

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 […]
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