Parents can help toddlers' language skills by showing them a variety of examples of different actions, according to new research. Previous research has shown that verbs pose particular difficulties to ...

Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Do you have a question you want us to answer? You can send us your questions to learning.english@bbc.co.uk Alejandra has sent us a question. She wants ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, ON--(Marketwired - September 20, 2013) - The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre (SSMIC) and Algoma Games for Health (AGFH) today announced the launch of InTense, an app and ...

(Medical Xpress)—Language acquisition has traditionally been considered a social, interactive process, however new research from Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent ...

An influential account claims that whereas children have a “coalition of cues” available during word learning, they initially weight perceptual cues more, only later attending to linguistic and social ...

In attempting to learn another language it’s frequently the forms of verbs which present the major difficulties. As has been observed previously in this column, this is much less of a problem with te ...