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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 22 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home; many of them are English and Spanish speakers from ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Before the 1950s, prevailing research indicated that bilingualism ...

Children living in multilingual communities often learn in a language at school that does not match the language they speak at home. This mismatch makes it challenging for them to participate in ...

Seven educators and one former student on how learning another language can change lives Bilingual education for me has been a validation of my language, culture and identity that I did not receive as ...

In just one academic year, Marietta City Schools in Georgia saw the percentage of elementary English learners (ELs) working in or above grade level rocket from 11 percent to 67 percent. Among the ...

This post was co-authored with Malak Elmessiry, Jessica Chuang, and Anayeli Huerta. According to UNESCO, more than half of the world population is bilingual or multilingual. At some point in life, ...