Young Latinos in the US often navigate a contradictory landscape: Their parents see them as not Latino enough, while teachers and peers view them as not American enough.
Combining content learning and language skills is a boon for academic performance.
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We acquire languages in a intuitive process that involves little effort; we learn them through the conscious assimilation of grammatical rules and usage.
The US is home to more international migrants than any other country. But even though immigration is an actively debated topic, immigrants are poorly understood.
Immigrants and teachers of English for speakers of other languages protest at Parliament Square in 2015.
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Language-learning research in the Netherlands has determined that using a foreign language rather than just memorizing its grammar can transform how students progress.
Is living in a language-rich world enough to teach a child grammatical language?
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Linguists have long considered grammar to be the glue of language, and key to how children learn it. But new prose-writing AIs suggest language experience may be more important than grammar.
For all sleep-learning’s promises, memorising words while awake was still five times more efficient.
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