New science explains why children outlearn AI in language—and what it means for tech, childhood, and the future of learning. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Children are astonishing language learners. Long ...

Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Studycat enhances its kids’ English app with VoicePlay, delivering real-time, phoneme-level pronunciation feedback in a ...

A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This ...

Children master languages effortlessly due to their highly adaptable brains and fearless approach to mistakes. Natural immersion in daily life, superior sound recognition, and learning through play, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of ...

An international group of literacy education experts are calling on teachers and parents to adopt a new framework for ...

UT assistant professor Maria Arredondo conducts an experiment to identify whether or not bilingual children are more efficient learners. Wearing a cap with instruments that map brain activity, a child ...

Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and rules from the world around them. What makes this achievement even more ...