Worldwide, there are more children who grow up learning multiple languages than children learning only one. And yet monolingualism is often taken as a starting point, for example in school. Research by linguist Elly Koutamanis ...
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2024
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People who speak two languages may be better at shifting their attention from one thing to another compared to those who speak one, according to a study published this month in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2023
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A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.
Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2021
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Physicists and mathematicians from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain are putting paid to the theory that two languages cannot co-exist in one society.
General Physics
Mar 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Music, like language, is affected by the mass cultural exchanges resulting from globalization. Bilingualism is increasing, and now a University of Arkansas researcher and her colleagues present the first ...
Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2010
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Bilingual education programs have a substantial spillover effect on the students they're not designed for, according to a groundbreaking study co-authored by a Michigan State University scholar.
Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2013
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As the number of Spanish-speaking English learners has increased in U.S. schools, research and attention have focused on how to boost students' reading and speaking skills. A first-of-its-kind study from the University of ...
Education
Oct 14, 2021
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Many presume bilingual education can level the academic playing field for English learners, but one UC Davis professor calls foul on current practices.
Social Sciences
Apr 21, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- More schools should consider adopting bilingual education for part of their teaching, according to a language education expert from the University of Exeter, UK.
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2012
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Some children learn to read early. Others need more time. But we can do some things to help them, and one of them is important to do first.
Education
Nov 5, 2019
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