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 ...

Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and rules from the world around them. What makes this achievement even more ...

Have you ever wondered why kids can pick up languages so easily? Even if it's one they don't speak at home, and contains sounds, structures, and symbols they don't immediately recognize or are ...

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 ...

Three parents — Reni Cao, Xiao Zhang, and Susan Rosenthal — were worried about their children’s screen time, so they left their tech jobs to create a product that encourages children to engage with ...

For Leslie and Mark Begert, raising bilingual children in a predominantly English-speaking culture presented a challenge that many parents face: how to make language learning natural, engaging, and ...

There’s a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...

And the funny mistakes children make along the way, such as saying "goed," instead of "went," or "mouses" instead of "mice," are not signs that children are learning language incorrectly. They are ...

Many parents have heard the warning: Don’t use baby talk with babies and toddlers. Instead, caregivers are often encouraged to speak properly and use adultlike language, out of concern that simplified ...