From brain development to accents, aptitude, and motivation, the real science behind language learning challenges the idea ...

Lauren: Learning a new language seems like a big challenge in the beginning, and that’s because it is. Many of us started our language learning in the classroom, where we’re taught through ...

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 ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

Xijia Zhang is affiliated with the University of Alberta. Kimberly Noels works for the University of Alberta. She receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.