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

As a Chinese and Japanese language teacher, I’ve always had a secret antipathy for sushi and dumplings. It’s not that I don’t like to eat them. It’s just that, in my first experiences teaching these ...

As you prepare for the med school application cycle, focus on experiences that show how you think, learn and adapt. By ...

The Center for Language Studies will sponsor a new Certificate in Intercultural Competence that will allow students to formally synthesize their language and experiential learning into a cohesive ...

Throughout this program, you’ll study the relationship between AI and society and the basics of AI technologies, so you can understand how AI tools can be built by society, for society. Your courses ...

The language that adolescents use is often described as sloppy, with an air of 'What's going to happen to all these kids who can't even talk properly?' Yet research from the University of Gothenburg, ...

An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a one-day public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussion of the quality performance measures for integration of health literacy, ...

When considering the challenges faced by children with developmental language disorder (DLD), it's natural to think of difficulties they have in understanding and using language. What tends to get ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Integrating Health Literacy, Cultural Competence, and Language ...