Many English-language learners can keep pace with native speakers of English during school lessons on recognizing words and spelling, but lag behind during lessons on skills such as reading ...

Questions around which instructional strategies work best for English-learners are far from settled, including how much a bilingual approach to teaching puts such students at an advantage.

The U.S. Education Department has rescinded critical guidance to schools regarding how they provide English language learning ...

President Donald Trump declared, by executive order, that English is the official language of the United States. To enforce ...

The move is an acceleration of President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring English the country’s “official language.” ...

Updated | Children must start to learn a new language by the age of 10 to achieve the fluency level of a native speaker, a new study has suggested. Evidence indicates it becomes harder to learn a ...

Officials removed decade-old guidance outlining the rights of students who are still learning English, which could weaken ...

In a language study exploring how people learn correct word use, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Illinois found that language learning goes well beyond simple imitation, and ...

A study in patients with epilepsy is helping researchers understand how the brain manages the task of learning a new language while retaining our mother tongue. The study, by neuroscientists at UC San ...