Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New science explains why children outlearn AI in language—and what it means for tech, childhood, and the future of learning.

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

July 2 (UPI) --Children are remarkably efficient language learners -- they absorb new words, sentence structures and syntax much faster than teenagers and adults. But why? While most studies probing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are three main reasons why Danish is so complicated. First, with about 40 different vowel sounds – compared to between 13 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Eastern Iowa students are being tested on their ability to recognize words, build vocabulary and develop crucial reading skills through a University of Iowa research project. While the ...

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 ...

Researchers describe a parser that learns through observation to more closely mimic a child's language-acquisition process, which could greatly extend the parser's capabilities. Children learn ...

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants ...