In an increasingly global economy, fluency in a second language is often touted as an important asset to individuals, not to mention employers. But is learning a second language in school really worth ...

The comprehensible input method of language learning says you can learn a second language the way you learned your first. You’ve probably heard that it’s extremely difficult for adults to learn a ...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) defines dyslexia as a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read (see here). The ...

Researchers set out to examine what benefits bilingualism might have in the process of learning a third language. They found that students who know two languages have an easier time gaining command of ...

The melting pot metaphor is stronger than ever in American schools today. With 40 million foreign-born residents currently in the U.S., 17 percent of whom have entered the country between 2005 and ...

Italian cardinal Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti was said to have spoken more than 38 languages fluently at the time of his death in 1849, a skill that would have been imminently useful in today's globalized ...

When twins Ryan and Michael D’Introno entered kindergarten two years ago, they often came home from school singing songs in Spanish, part of a language immersion program their school in Bedford Hills, ...

Post written by François Grosjean. In an earlier post on questions parents may want to consider when deciding to make their child bilingual, I stated that some people still believe that you cannot be ...