Devices can help a tourist order dinner or ask for directions. But when the stakes are higher, new tech isn't enough.

The number of international schools has increased significantly in the past few decades (including within the United States) — to more than 13,000 schools serving close to 10 million students, ...

entering each ear, Wright and Fitzgerald report in the Oct. 9 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most learning on this task occurred in early practice sessions and then leveled off, the ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

Ability to understand and subsequently speak a new language requires the ability to accurately discriminate speech sounds of a given language. When we start to learn a new language the differences ...

Some people pick up languages like colds, or sunburns—without effort, through simple immersion in the atmosphere. Others can’t hear the word ‘conjugate’ without flashing back, in shame, to the ...

Sound familiar? You have a solid vocabulary, you understand verb tenses, but when you start speaking, something goes wrong.

After years of being too anxious to practice my second language with others, Gemini Live gives me an environment I feel comfortable in.