Seminole County Commissioner Lee Constantine (left), with Seminole Library Services Manager Christine Patten (far right) demonstrates using the William J. and Gloria Goodman Language Learning Lab ...

Educators say digital tools help students practice without an age-old barrier that can inhibit foreign-language learning: embarrassment.

Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. His research group ...

Along the same technological lines, the lab is currently partnering with the computer science department to develop videos for their experiments. In addition, the two departments are collaborating on ...

This article reports the results of a study of the effectiveness of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in the acquisition of English as a second language by Arabic- and Spanish-speaking ...

Treatment Efficacy & Language Learning Lab studies language impairment to help children in school.

The idea that learning and using certain computer languages can influence how people solve problems resonates with the famous Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which holds that spoken languages differ in ...

The Multilingual Language Processing Lab, led by Prof. Nianwen Xue, conducts research at the intersection of linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The lab’s work centers on two key, ...

Pieter Abbeel, who runs the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab in California, uses reinforcement-learning systems that compete against themselves to learn faster in a method called self-play.

The Never-Ending Language Learning system, or NELL, has made an impressive showing so far. NELL scans hundreds of millions of Web pages for text patterns that it uses to learn facts, 390,000 to ...