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 ...

This study reports on the impact of 11 West European first languages on the acquisition of Dutch. Using data from nearly 6,000 secondlanguage learners, it was found that the mother tongue had a rather ...

Second language acquisition (SLA) and processing constitute a vibrant area of research that spans cognitive psychology, linguistics, and educational sciences. Researchers in this field investigate how ...

Second Language Research, Vol. 34, No. 1, Special issue: Neurolinguistics and the Language Classroom (January 2018), pp. 103-123 (21 pages) The topic of this article is the link between research on ...

There is nothing more energizing than visiting an elementary school where teachers are working their magic while children soak up every morsel of new knowledge and skills. This past spring, I visited ...

Learning a second language is not necessarily required or expected of students in America -- but virtually everywhere else in the world, it is. What factors determine what second languages Americans ...

Think you haven't got the aptitude to learn a foreign language? In a new study, neuroscientists predict which study participants would be more successful second language learners simply by measuring a ...

Learning English can be a challenge for nonnative speakers, and particularly for children who must do so as they adapt to life in a new country and continue learning other subjects. Yet education ...

SINGAPORE and NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At the recently concluded 2025 World Chinese Language Conference, global education technology company LingoAce announced the forthcoming ...