MORE often than not, language abilities are measured by way of fluency and accuracy in accomplishing context-free language tasks. This is evident in how internationally recognized tests like the ...

“The number of English learners is going to go from 1 billion now to 2 billion in 2020,” says Bernhard Niesner, CEO & Co-founder of busuu.com, the online language learning platform. “And for sure, ...

Sallee brings deep assessment and product leadership experience to advance LTI’s innovation and impact TARRYTOWN, NY, ...

This course will survey the field of methodology in second language teaching. Students will examine past and present second language learning and teaching experiences in a variety of contexts. The ...

UC administrators are looking to cut campus-based foreign language courses and aim to outsource language teaching to an ...

In her doctoral dissertation, Heini Kallio looks for connections between the acoustic features of speech and the language proficiency assessments carried out by humans. The results can be applied to ...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (July 28, 2015) -- A graduation ceremony for 10 participants from eight countries attending the first NATO faculty development course to address the challenges of ...

Professor, Multilingual Education and Associate Dean, Research, York University, Canada Learning a language after one’s early childhood home language is often referred to as second language learning ...

Researchers have long agreed girls have superior language abilities to boys, but haven't clearly provided a biological basis to account for their differences. For the first time and in unambiguous ...