Second language acquisition research consistently distinguishes between implicit and explicit knowledge, recognising their distinct roles in linguistic processing. Implicit knowledge, gradually ...

I’m in Indianapolis at the SHEEO (State Higher Education Executive Officers) Policy Conference. It’s a gathering of 250-300ish people from around the country who work in, or with, state offices of ...

Tests that assess vocabulary among individuals with the severest forms of autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, are notoriously inaccurate. Conventional language assessments, which commonly ask them to ...

The acquisition of language is a multifaceted process that extends well beyond deliberate instruction. Recent studies indicate that implicit learning—whereby individuals unconsciously absorb the ...

This experimental study examines the extent to which 60 adult Japanese ESL learners were able to acquire a rule regulating the argument structure frames of novel verbs of English after exposure to ...

Words are not random units. Rather, they follow hidden linguistic structures that demonstrate how language generates meaning ...

In an earlier post in this blog, Why Did Language Evolve? I examined the relationship between language and mind in creating meaning. I proposed that meaning arises in the mix, from the complex ...

Knowledge democracy doesn’t mean having an expert in every room; it’s about empowering all employees to work with and explore company knowledge resources freely. Many knowledge-sharing tools have ...

This may come as a shock if you've first encountered knowledge graphs in Gartner's hype cycles and trends, or in the extensive coverage they are getting lately. But here it is: Knowledge graph ...