BBC education correspondent Mike Baker discussed the government's latest moves to encourage language learning in England's secondary schools. We had a very large number of responses, from around the ...

In recent years, deep learning has transformed Natural Language Processing (NLP), search retrieval, and ranking by enabling more precise, context-aware, and efficient systems. Rama Krishna, an ...

This “whole-to-part” approach suggests that children have an inherent bias toward holistic learning, challenging the traditional view that language is usually acquired by assembling smaller ...

If you stumble when you need to talk to someone in a language that isn't your native language, do you think: "I just don't have the knack for languages" or "Maybe I am not cut out to learn another ...

Leo Kitaen bridges cultures, inspires language-learning through Mandarin TikToks Leo Kitaen holds up a phone on the UCLA campus.

How does speech from other children influence an infant’s ability to learn language? Federica Bulgarelli, assistant professor in the departments of Learning and Instruction and Psychology, has been ...

Educators are divided along political lines on rights for English learners and immigrant students, an EdWeek Research Center survey found.

Generative AI tools can mimic real-life, foreign-language conversations at any time, which might be the key to language learning ...

The DigiTala project investigated high school students’ perceptions of automated assessment and a web-based test of oral language skills. The students' feedback was mostly positive and the content of ...

There is a risk of complacency over the relatively low level of proficiency in a second foreign language exhibited by young Irish people. The latest figures from the EU show Ireland languishing at ...