Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and ...

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as “We ...

When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent ...

For more than a century, scholars have repeated a powerful idea: that the mistakes children make when learning to speak are ...

Interview conducted by Aneta Pavlenko. Our guest today is Leslie C. Moore, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University who studied language learning in Cameroon. Leslie, could you please ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.