During this one-hour webinar, Guided Language Acquisition experts will delve into language comprehension through a breakdown of the science of reading with an interactive demonstration. The session ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

Reading ability among young people is declining, and it is the most vulnerable students who are hardest hit, according to speech therapist and researcher Anna Eva Hallin. In her research, she aims to ...

The study involved 45 typically developing children and 34 children with developmental language disorders between the ages of 5 and 10, all bilingual Catalan and Spanish speakers living in Catalonia.

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions providing neurocognitive perspectives on language comprehension. Communicating through spoken ...

Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not, according to ...

In classrooms across the country, children are showing progress in reading, yet many students cannot tell you what those words mean, why they matter or how the text connects to their lives. My first ...

Increasing physical fitness levels does have a causal link with better language comprehension, according to the first study to show this effect. The study published in Ageing, Neuropsychology and ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...