A little girl in a pair of pale pink corduroy dungarees at a London play centre is trying valiantly to get her mother to read ...

July 2 (UPI) --Children are remarkably efficient language learners -- they absorb new words, sentence structures and syntax much faster than teenagers and adults. But why? While most studies probing ...

The FINANCIAL — new study using MRI has revealed structural brain changes in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), a common but under-recognised difficulty in language learning.

About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days ...

The songbird is among the classical species studied as a model for understanding the neurobiology of language. It uses song and vocalization to communicate information for its survival. The songbird’s ...

Heading out on a nature walk near their Carbondale, Colorado, home, Rachel Mulry and her three kids review some words: verde (green), naranja (orange), rojo (red). The family is learning Spanish ...

• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary Audrey-Ann Deneault receives funding ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

In this article, we will be looking at the 15 best foreign languages to learn for a child. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of language learning for children, you can directly go to the ...

Emiko Muraki receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Penny Pexman receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...