Trinity College London reveals gap between recognising the importance of politeness strategies and implementing them in classroom settings.
A new survey has uncovered significant challenges in teaching politeness strategies to...
Language learning protects against dementia.
Language learning improves cognitive function, especially cognitive flexibility, in the over 65s, according to...
Several translanguaging processes are common in bilingual Chinese-English university classes, according to a recent study by Weihong Wang, China university of Geosciences, Wuhan, China...
Twelve-month old babies understand that foreign languages are not just noise, according to a study by Athena Vouloumanos at New York University.
Babies selectively attend...
Teaching pronunciation to learners of Spanish as a foreign language improved intelligibility and comprehension in listening tasks, reports Elizabeth Kissling from the University of...
Since the 1990s, ELT textbooks have increasingly embodied neoliberal assumptions, claims Keith Copley’s qualitative analysis of popular and influential ELT courses from the last...