If learning to be a Christian is like learning a language, then teaching children to speak Christian is more complicated than it used to be. Families don’t go to church as much as they once did, and ...

A few weeks ago, Rosemary Salomone published "The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language." The book from a professor at St. John's University School of Law chronicles how English ...

A new study has uncovered the ways different types of play are linked to children's social abilities and brain activity. The ...

Play provides learning opportunities for children to develop their language skills through a variety of activities. Babies’ communication with their “playmates” (parents, siblings, other children) ...

As Kate Pamphilon plays with her children, she pulls a saucepan out from the kitchen cupboard and leaves it up to her kids to decide what it should be used for. Is it a drum? A super hero helmet? Or a ...

Back in August, Massively wrote a little post about Swedish research on MMOs and language learning. That article provoked me, a gamer and teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), to ...

New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that language may play an important role in learning the meanings of numbers. New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that ...

With “Honky,” PBS and Onstage in America present a stage comedy about racism that throws political correctness out the window. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with the play’s author, Greg Kalleres, to ...

The first English words I learned were "register" and "not yet". I didn't quite grasp their meaning at the time. I only knew that my CD-ROMs full of demos all featured the same starting screen with ...

The play in North Kitsap's football playbook reads as follows: trey right tight unbalanced trade yoyo37 belly boot right rabbit. Imagine playing quarterback for the Vikings and trying to string those ...