Many faculty members and students come from all over the world to participate in research at the Second Language and Bilingualism Lab (SLAB) — their interests in second language acquisition sparked ...

What it takes to learn a second language. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 20 percent of the U.S. population speaks another language other than English, compared to 59 percent of ...

Pragmatic competence—the ability to navigate the subtleties of social and cultural language use—remains a pivotal area in second language acquisition research.

A new study suggests that bilingualism can improve cognitive and social skills in children with autism. Multilingual children ...

Daryl M. Gordon, Trauma and Second Language Learning among Laotian Refugees, Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2011), pp. 1-17 Free online reading for over 10 ...

But an in-depth look at the science behind how language is developed reveals an interesting parallel between the science of reading and second language learning. In fact, the science of reading can ...

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These images showed the strengthening of white matter connections within the language network, as well as the involvement of additional regions in the right hemisphere during second language learning.

More broadly, I investigate whether learning a second language can change the way we perceive the world in the same way that our native language can. The previous results come from an experiment ...

University of Chicago professor Shane Dunkle and his English-learning board game group have found success in helping students acquire more casual English skills.