As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

A baby's first year brings incredible change. In just a few months, babies go from cooing and crawling to making sense of language in ways researchers are only starting to understand. One mystery has ...

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A new study reported that children and adolescents find intrinsic joy in learning new words. It is hoped that the motivational aspects of learning new words could be used to improve educational ...

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...

A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left hemisphere ...

Very young children learn words at a tremendous rate. Now researchers at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, have for the first time seen how specific brain regions ...

• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...

Like every other person who carries around a smartphone, I take a lot of pictures, mostly of my kids. I thought I was bad with a few thousand snaps filling my phone’s memory. But then I talked to MIT ...

We often view the ability to construct and learn a language as a skill set so unique it sets us apart from all other creatures in the animal kingdom. Dogs, in all their unknowing wisdom, make a mess ...

This summer I’ve been learning Tamil. Not only is it the primary language spoken in Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India, it’s my mother tongue — a language everybody else in my family speaks.