Barbara J. King – November 14, 2013 The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in […]

Amber Moore – Jan 02, 2013 A new study shows that children begin learning vowels in their native language while still in the womb.Babies learn language […]

Carla Thomas McCiure – January 2013 While education research has long suggested that studying second languages in K12 schools boosts student achievement in other content areas, […]

Roslyn Tam – September 15, 2012 As improvements in transportation and communication increase the interconnectedness of the world economy, the ability to communicate effectively across linguistic barriers has […]

“Learning two languages confuses a child and lowers his intelligence.”Old, poorly designed studies done primarily in the United States claimed to show that bilinguals had lower […]

Alejandro Brice, Ph.D, CCC-SLP – March 30, 2012 IntroductionPragmatics is the ability to use language in specific contexts and for specific purposes (Brice, 1992). School based […]

Jacki Lyden, NPR – March 26, 2012 Ever wish you had studied a little harder in your high school French or Spanish class? According to a […]

Leslie Berestein Rojas – March 19, 2012 Does being bilingual really make you smarter? Science  staff writer Yudhijit Bhattacharjee made a good argument for it in the […]