Poorer students in England are more likely to miss out on studying a language for secondary education certificate

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language for the General ...
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Transition in modern foreign languages: a longitudinal study of motivation for language learning and second language proficiency

Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 43, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: New educational researchers in the UK (August 2017), pp. 462-481 (20 pages) The current longitudinal study examines the similarities and ...
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Semantic Holism and Language Learning

Holistic theories of meaning have, at least since Dummett's Frege: The Philosophy of language, been assumed to be problematic from the perspective of the incremental nature of natural language ...
Nature

Foreign language learning

The Editors at Communications Psychology invite submissions on the topic of foreign language learning. This curated Collection of research articles seeks to bring together high-quality publications ...
Princeton University

Study finds that learning language goes beyond imitation

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 ...
Inverse

Adult language learning literally reroutes brain networks

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...
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Learning a second language may depend on the strength of brain's connections

Learning a second language is easier for some adults than others, and innate differences in how the various parts of the brain "talk" to one another may help explain why. Learning a second language is ...