Successful communication relies on the capacity of community members to establish a shared understanding of the world. Language plays a central role in fostering this alignment by providing a medium ...

Classroom teachers may not employ the strategies that can help students master complex written language, according to speech-language pathology researchers. Educators call it the fourth-grade slump: a ...

Reading expository texts remains a primary means for students to acquire scientific knowledge. Learning from such texts crucially depends on the reader’s ability to construct a mental representation ...