A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

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This story was updated on Oct. 14, 2015. The recently released Common Core-aligned test results show the percentage of California high school students identified as ready, or on pace to be ready by ...

Learn the key features that differentiate a language from its dialects, including structure, standardization, and how they are affected by geography, culture, and social grouping. Get examples of both ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. For instance, ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...