For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

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Among the eight undergraduate colleges at Cornell, the College of Arts and Sciences holds the most robust foreign language requirement. Students can fulfill the requirement in two methods — either by ...

PEPPER PIKE, Ohio -- The Orange Board of Education has approved the adoption of a new English/language arts curriculum for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. On Monday (Dec. 9), the board ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...