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Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.
South African parents want their children be taught in English despite the fact that research shows that academic progress is hindered if a child is taught in a language they aren’t proficient in.
Adults aren’t the only language teachers: six-year-olds still produce sounds differently than adults, but toddlers are extremely good at understanding the speech of children six years and older.
Could mating preferences, like females preferring males who sing complex songs, affect the evolution of learning? Insights from birds could have clues for how people learn throughout their lives.
Wales’s schools mostly teach in English at present but its new curriculum will make Welsh language part of every lesson in all schools.
Research shows babies in bilingual environments can track the precursors to words, known as word forms, in two languages.
Even if only 130 Australians of non-Chinese heritage can speak Mandarin fluently, there are many more if you count those of Chinese heritage. And a level of fluency is not the only measure of success.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where primary school pupils do not have to learn another language.
Across the English-speaking world, boys tend to drop out of foreign language study as soon as it is not mandatory.
This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.
The ability of multilingual children to learn and advance academically from pre-primary has little to do with their English proficiency.
Young people from working class backgrounds in socially deprived areas are far less likely to choose, or have the opportunity, to study languages at secondary school, than their more affluent peers.
Educational mobile gaming can offer students a way to practice language while taking away the pressures of typical face-to-face communication.
A study of Polish children in Glasgow reveals how they successfully navigate complex social rules relating to language to blend in with their peers.
The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.
To sustain geo-political relations with French-speaking Pacific nations in the future, we need to change the way French is taught to young Australians.
The ability to speak more than one language informs many writers of fiction, but analysis of Booker Prize shortlists suggests this is not so important any more.
Learning languages early makes multilingualism “normal” in classrooms and playgrounds, and builds curiosity and even modest mastery.
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