The majority of children and young people in Ireland learn Irish in an English-medium setting. Principal investigators of the ...

While federal law requires schools to provide language services for students classified as English learners, states and local districts have broad discretion in the types of education programming to ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What do you think have been the most important education research findings from the past 10 years, and what areas are you hoping researchers focus on in the next 10 ...

In today’s world, multilingual contexts are the norm rather than the exception. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Atlas of Languages reveals that ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Researchers recently conducted a study focusing on Babbel, a popular subscription-based language learning app and e-learning platform, to see if it really worked at teaching a new language. Now more ...

Karen Roehr-Brackin received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (grant reference SRG23\230787) which supported the research project reported here. If you’ve always wanted to learn a new ...

Alex Mangold received funding from the British Academy for the research mentioned in this article (Talent Development Award 2021). Sarah Pogoda received funding from the British Academy for the ...

If you’ve always wanted to learn a new language, don’t let age put you off. People aged over 60 can be independent and flexible in how they learn a language – and successful, too.