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 ...

For once, Oregon wasn’t behind. The Ducks didn’t trail at the half, nor down the stretch. It was a strange sense of calm for a team that... Students now have the opportunity to apply for a scholarship ...

Psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists show that bilinguals who are highly proficient in their second language, such as international students who have come to the United States to pursue higher ...

Over nearly half a century, research on language immersion education has heralded benefits such as academic achievement, language and literacy development in two or more languages, and cognitive ...

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 ...

Can the eccentricities of grammar in one’s native language subconsciously affect the way speakers perceive the world? The linguistic relativity hypothesis asserts that this is the case, that the ...

Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency – ...