GOLETA, Calif. – Across the state, Santa Barbara County has one of the highest percentages of students who struggle to speak fluent English, even more than down in Los Angeles County. A new state ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in the assessment of language development among bilingual families and in the identification of those children who require extra support to improve their ...

Many parents have a desire to raise their children to be bilingual or multilingual (that is, speaking more than one language fluently). It seems that everyone has an opinion on the “right” way to ...

Martha Hernandez, who began her career as a bilingual educator in California in 1976, remembers a time when knowing a language other than English was not considered an asset. It was difficult to ...

Amanda Owen Van Horne sits on the floor while a child mixes up cake batter in a play kitchen. While at play, an intensive language therapy program is also underway for preschool-aged children with ...

This post originally appeared on The Conversation. Our concerns grew as we watched younger kids overtake his speaking ability. (Even experts can’t escape the fear and guilt that comes with being a ...

Language mixing -- using elements from two languages in the same sentence -- is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and two-year-old children ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study reveals that Spanish-primary-language parents in the U.S. wish to raise their children bilingually. The study, which examines the attitudes, beliefs, and ...

“La idea de no tener una lengua materna me preocupa. ¿Es como sentirte un nómada dentro de tu propia cabeza? No me puedo imaginar no tener palabras en las que refugiarme. Ser huérfana de lengua.” “The ...

Carbondale Middle School teacher Grace De La Sala attributes her career path as a bilingual educator to her own experience as a second language learner. The daughter of Colombian parents, her family ...

The Kannada Development Authority has urged Karnataka to drop the three-language formula in favour of a bilingual policy, citing rising Kannada failure rates in SSLC exams. Its report recommends ...